Addiction Treatment Outcomes: All Roads Lead to Christ

This study examines how religiosity, specifically, church attendance, prior to admission into an addictions treatment facility (Teen Challenge) is related to the treatment outcomes of completing the program and the participants' length of stay in treatment. Additionally, the study investigates how other factors such as marital status, ethnicity, alcohol and drug use, and level of education may be related to retention rates and treatment outcomes. Using archival data of 388 enrollees in a Te...