Guest House to treat addictions of women religious in new facility

Published: 2006-02-07

DETROIT (CNS) -- Guest House, which provides alcohol and substance abuse services to men and women religious, has announced plans to build a $3.5 million treatment center for sisters at its 102-acre Lake Orion campus near Detroit. Guest House has treated nearly 300 women religious since it began doing so in 1994. It has also treated more than 6,600 priests, brothers and deacons, although men are now treated at a center in Minnesota. Guest House celebrates its 50th anniversary this year and is one of a few such treatment centers across the country. "I believe we've treated more priests than any other health care facility in the world," said Daniel A. Kidd, Guest House's president and chief executive officer. Currently, women religious are treated for alcoholism, drug addictions, compulsive gambling, compulsive eating and compulsive spending in the historic, 67-room Scripps Mansion, built in 1927 and formerly owned by William Scripps of The Detroit News and WWJ radio.

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