Drug Abuse Resistance Education (stylized as D.A.R.E.) is an education program that seeks to prevent use of controlled drugs, membership in gangs, and violent behavior. It was founded in Los Angeles in 1983 as a joint initiative of then-LAPD chief Daryl Gates and the Los Angeles Unified School District as a demand-side drug control strategy of the American War on Drugs. The program's mascot is Daren the Lion.

Due to studies showing that DARE was ineffective or that its effectiveness could not be proven, it got revamped by the very sociologist who deemed it ineffective, Richard Clayton. Clayton was hired onto the advisory board. The new program focuses on bullying, cyber bullying, suicide prevention, domestic violence, the opioid epidemic, mass shooting awareness and human trafficking. The way in which the new DARE is taught is less of a lecture and more of a course on healthy decision-making skills developed through activities played with their peers that builds muscle memory in how they respond in high-peer-pressure situations. This new program is called "Keepin' it REAL".

Its American headquarters is in Inglewood, California. DARE expanded to Great Britain in 1995.