ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the program elements that might establish a prima facie case for the author's thesis of Redemption House and Recovery House as parallel programs. These elements include: organizational structure, especially the daily schedule; treatment and training processes; the modes of discourse; resident populations and staffing sources; central assumptions about "addiction" and "treatment". The chapter looks at the ways that the religious and secular programs mirror one another. The two programs share the same code of social ethics, and the same logic of morality. The chapter describes a number of structures, processes, procedures, perspectives, and personnel that demonstrate significant similarities, parallels, affinities, or correspondences between the program for rehabilitation of people with drug use problems at Redemption House and the one at Recovery House. The goals of treatment at Recovery House mirror those at Redemption House in many of their details, even though the stated overall goal is individual psychological health rather than personal eternal salvation.
