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Mar. 5, 2026 – Life House was launched almost three decades ago by a pastor, Mark Stermer. He was mentoring men who were in prison and was frustrated by the frequency with which they kept coming back. They might get clean in prison or enter a treatment facility when they were released, but soon enough they were back in the throes of addiction, seemingly unable to break free. The more he looked at the treatment system they were entering, the more obvious the problems became. Money — who got paid and how — was a big factor. The 30-day treatment programs seemed to do very little, but even longer-term programs didn’t seem to put people on a path to stability or connection or sobriety.
If anything, the problem has only become worse. As a recent investigation by The Wall Street Journal noted, “Fraud has become a multimillion-dollar problem in America’s booming rehab industry, according to state officials, lawsuits filed by insurers and former clients, and federal indictments and convictions.”
