Alcohol/Drug programs: Do they lie about their success?

Speaking of drug treatment programs and honesty let me pass on a little story.
An acquaintance of mine recently volunteered to be on the community board which
made the decision which treatment programs received government funding. He was an
active member of Narcotics Anonymous and knew most of the addicts that were in
recovery in the small town where I lived at the time. One of the counselors at the
recovery program came in front of the board ,giving a glowing report of all the people
they had helped. A few days later he saw the head of the program who was also a
Narcotics Anonymous member. My friend asked where were all these addicts were they
Had helped since he didn?t see them around town, and he knew most of the people in recovery? The answer he got was , ? I don?t know?. In fact, reliable statistics of the efficacy of modern treatment programs are hard tocome by. How can these treatment programs help anybody when they themselves are not
honest and lie about the number of people they help to get money?

At a future date we will be posting statistics on recovery as best we can find them. I
have already spent a considerable amount of time researching the subject. Some studies
say treatment works and others say it doesn?t. Really makes you wonder doesn?t it? Are
these programs going to admit they are failures if it means they lose their funding?