The Texas Commission on Alcohol and Drug Abuse (TCADA) determined that it was illegal to "offer or purport to offer chemical-dependency treatment without a license." TCADA notified Teen Challenge of San Antonio, a faith-based substance abuse treatment program, that it had to have a license to continue to provide treatment—even though the organization had been treating addicts since 1969 and boasted a success rate of up to 70 percent among those who complete the year-long program. Teen Challenge had to meet state standards and adopt the therapeutic model of treatment, under which staff members had to be "qualified credentialed counselors" trained to treat drug and alcohol abuse as a disease from which one is never cured, and who abjure the practice of "shaming" an individual receiving treatment. This, of course, contradicted the program's spiritual orientation and its basic formula for success.

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