When a doctor or a group claims to have the cure for something-treat it with a high degree of skepticism. No, there is no cure for cancer and no, no one is holding it back or keeping it in secret. I've noticed that people hawking addiction cures can be incredibly offensive about how they market their product. No, no addiction cure, even ones based in religion and even ones based in my religion, is 100% effective. If they were, than everyone would use it.
When something works people generally flock to it, usually by word of mouth. iPhones are incredibly popular because they work. Blackberries have sort of died out because they don't work as well as the other alternatives. Peach pits do not cure cancer and no one uses them to do so. Chemo, all though it has horrible side effects, treats cancer the best way possible that we know of right now, so people generally treat cancer with it.
Addiction treatments are notoriously difficult. Some work on a minority of people, some don't work at all, and some claim to magically cure all addictions with the push of a button. No addict wants to be addicted, and if one treatment really did work 85% of the time, then all addicts would flock to it. That doesn't happen, so I'm intensely skeptical of any addiction treatment that claims a high success rate.
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