Jeff Sessions touts failed DARE drug program

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Attorney General Jeff Sessions on Tuesday touted the decades-old Drug Abuse Resistance Education program, or DARE, even though many have panned the program as one that failed to achieve any meaningful results.

“DARE is, I think, the best remembered anti-drug program today. In recent years, people have not paid much attention to that message, but they are ready to hear it again,” Sessions said to a DARE conference in Texas. “We know it worked before and we can make it work again.”

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