Rehab program leaders rebut complaints of inefficiency

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Montgomery drug rehabilitation leaders defended themselves to council members Tuesday against allegations that residential drug programs cost too much and achieved too little.

Labor leaders urged council members last week to reduce or eliminate funding for the county’s residential drug rehabilitation programs, saying in a cost-savings memo that more than $5 million a year “is spent on programs that have yet to show any significant results.”

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