Substituting religion for genuine mental health treatment is not only wrong, but it doesn’t work. Many of the alleged “addiction treatments” are heavily christianized and they don’t work. Not sometimes, not a little, they do not work. AA is based on christianity and its’ self reported success rate is 2.5% That is self reported, not evaluated by someone else. I can only assume that the myriad of 12 Step programs out there for drugs experience similar results. In fact with a success rate of 2.5%, chances are you are harming as many people as you are helping. Every treatment has side effects. One can only assume there are fundamental problems with the religious approach that poison the process and results in such poor success rates. For these reasons, I would be extremely reluctant to seek treatment from a christian based therapist for anything and would hesitate to recommend it to anyone. If there are successes out there I am not aware of please enlighten me. However, self reported success is not success. If you have independently verified success rates for christian based therapies please share them.
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