ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the concepts covered in the preceding chapters of this book. The book suggests that Redemption House and Recovery House draw on the same marginal, drug-using populations for their clientele and then insist the clients adapt their own biographies to the same underlying paradigm(s) of the addiction myth. It focuses on residents and their rationales or the accounts they offer for being in the confines of a drug treatment program or discipleship training program. It explores the use of Higher Power spirituality (HPS) at Recovery House. This system of belief was created by Bill W. for his Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) cronies, but dismissed by Charles Dederich who founded the original therapeutic community, Synanon, as he picked and chose among AA ideas and practices. The book offers the similarity in the programmatic attempts of both Houses to prepare their clients for ideological survival in the outside world.
