Yesterday , President Bush issued a Proclamation (full text) declaring September 2008 as National Alcohol and Drug Addiction Recovery Month. A portion of the Proclamation emphasized the role of faith-based organizations in addiction treatment:
Too many of our citizens have been swept up in a cycle of addiction. Through faith-based and community groups, we have revolutionized the way we help people break the chains of addiction. The Access to Recovery program provides addicts with vouchers so that they can attend the treatment center of their choice. Our Nation's armies of compassion have helped nearly 200,000 clients rediscover their dignity and purpose through this program.
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And since every legitimate statistic, which tracks drop outs and long term recovery (Most of them **ignore** drop outs, having no legal requirement, unlike secular drug rehab, to attempt to find out *and* do not follow up on those that complete the problem either.), indicated a 95% failure rate, we can also praise them for failing to help the other 3,800,000 people that at one point or another enter the programs, but either fail to complete them, or start taking again after.
Note: Most such programs **used to** claim a 90% success rate, back when they figured people wouldn't check. They have moderated that a bit, now stating an 80% success rate. This is, if it was believable, higher than secular programs, but its also nearly 180 degrees backward from what **few** pieces of real information indicate. The people that run 12-step programs, like AA, for example, actually had an internal memo that stated **explicitly** that roughly 95% of the people that entered their programs dropped out before completion, and that they had a) no idea why, b) no idea if they where still using, and c) no intention, since this drop out rate was a complete mystery to them, of changing the program to correct the problem.
But, the bigger issues are thus. 95% is also the failure rate of people "going cold turkey", and, any program that isn't heavilly religious, but strives to use psychology and medical means of treatment is acting as a "secular" program, and no secular program has ever claimed better than, I think, around 60%. Anyone claiming 80% had damn well better have at least as good, if not better, record keeping than state funded secular programs, which are ***required*** to follow strict guide lines. Religious based programs have no such requirement, and the only attempt, so far, to **require** such standards has been suggested by Obama as one of the things he wants to see happen if such programs get the same or more funding, and... what do you know, they all had a screaming fit at the suggestion someone would hold them accountable to proving that their programs where actually working, instead of just making claims that are unfounded, unjustified, unsupported by documentation, and intentionally doctored, by excluding "inconvenient" people, and by failing to do any sort of follow ups.
It would be damn nice if, before the president, and other "leaders" praise shit, they had some fracking clue what the truth was. Heck, maybe the programs do work better. But, the simple truth is, there is no fracking documentation to show that its actually factually true, and when ever there has been documentation it ended up looking more like an advert for Airborne, than validation (noting the Airborne was recently successfully sued for having a) misrepresented what their product did, b) lying about it being actually "tested", since the lab that supposedly did so never existed, and c) lying about who invented it.) This is the same you get in faith based rehab. The only ones that actually work are mostly secular in nature, with a veneer if religion over them, and even those ***are not required by the state*** to keep the same records as secular groups, so none of their claims are either verifiable, or, in the most absurd cases, easily debunked by just pointing out the people listed as "cured" by them, who are still using, but which they never checked on after they left, a requirement that must be met/attempted by secular programs, but not faith based ones.
Next weeks headline: "President issues babbling letter, congratulating himself on the his new clothes."
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