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'This was my beginning of learning to live life,' Treat said. Joseph Martin, a renowned Catholic priest. He read 'The Big Book' from Alcoholics Anonymous. They buried it deep.Д«ut he stayed in treatment, figuring he had to get sober before working on those root problems. In addition, his sister died in a snowtubing accident at 12.

His father was a broken man who took out his anger on his eight children, whipping Treat bloody as young as age 4. Addiction wasn't the root of his problem family was. His family found him a bed in a treatment center.ДЄt first, he was resistant. In the depressing aftermath of the bender, he knew he had hit bottom. Then Treat and a friend freebased $700 worth of cocaine. 'It's all kind of a blur.'ДЄt 27, having traded his car for a bag of pot, and fired from his job, he took a bottle of Percoset to a ski resort near Lake Tahoe and gobbled them up. 'I basically lived the life of the prodigal son, partying my life away,' he said. Opioids were his favorite they brought him an unparalleled feeling of well-being - until they took over his body's ability to feel good. After high school, he drifted, waiting tables in Maui, Scottsdale and San Diego. Treat grew up north of Seattle in an unstable family and started using drugs regularly around 13. 'To me, that's a confession of addiction: 'God, I confess I hurt myself and other people, and I need your help.' That's the first step of the 12-step program.'

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'We typically begin worship with this confession: 'We confess we are in bondage to sin and cannot free ourselves,'' Treat said. In 2021, that number skyrocketed to almost 76,000.

In 2020, some 56,000 Americans died from opioid overdoses, according to the CDC. The philosophy of recovery parallels religious redemption, that 'broken people are not bad people,' Treat says.ДЄ year ago, Treat quit his job as a senior pastor at Transfiguration Lutheran Church in Bloomington, and his new ministry - t he Center of Addiction and Faith - became his full-time calling. Rabbi Mark Borovitz of Los Angeles has turned his own story of addiction and recovery into Beit T'Shuvah (House of Return), a longstanding Jewish recovery center that inspired New York City's newer T'Shuvah Center. As America's opioid crisis deepens - and the COVID-19 pandemic has led to dramatic increases in substance abuse - faith communities are bringing talk about addiction from the basement to the sanctuary.ДЇarhia Budul of Minneapolis founded the Niyyah Recovery Initiative, the nation's first recovery community organization focused on the East African and Muslim population. Treat sees this shift across faith communities. Only recently, Treat says, has that changed - and mainline Christian denominations have lagged behind. For nearly as long, humanity has avoided talking about it. His organization, the Center of Addiction and Faith, has continued to grow in the years since.ДЄddiction has been around as long as humanity. Then 200 people showed up from 17 denominations and 35 states. Ed Treat had no idea if anyone would show up to his first conference focused on addiction and recovery and faith. 'The church,' the 62-year-old Minnetrista man said, 'is finally ready to talk about this.' Clergy arrived from 17 denominations and 35 states.

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When the hotel told him he needed to cut off registration at 200, he knew his vague idea had legs. So Treat organized a conference in Bloomington in 2018 to educate clergy on addiction. We send seminarians out into the world, and seminaries just don't teach it.' 'Overeating, consumer culture, drinking, everything. 'How can a faith leader be effective and not understand how addiction works?' Treat wondered. It struck Treat how few faith leaders were there. That year, more than 42,000 Americans died of opioid overdoses. Amy Klobuchar spoke of the opioid epidemic worsening. In 2016, he went to a meeting with power players in the Minnesota recovery community: government officials, law enforcement, thought leaders in addiction and drug policy. After going into recovery, he became a Lutheran pastor, and he still noticed how reticent churches were to delve into addiction. In adolescence and early adulthood, Treat had been a drug and alcohol addict, but in his darkest times, he never felt welcomed by the church. At first, it was a vague idea stemming from Ed Treat's own life.

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