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Police: DARE works in Concord, despite Healey's assertion 

The Drug Abuse Resistance Education, or DARE, program is continuing in Concord despite a rethinking by state officials who want quantifiable proof of its effectiveness before funding it.

Lt. Gov. Kerry Healey recently announced her intent to review the program that is geared to elementary school children.

But Concord Police Chief Len Wetherbee needs no further convincing of DARE's efficacy. . . .

"How do you quantify the connections that are established," Camilleri asked. "When a student comes up to me and said his mom quit smoking after talking about the dangers, how do you measure that with statistics?"

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