Addiction & Recovery — A Faith-Integrated Approach

Addiction is increasingly recognized as a condition that involves spiritual, relational, and formative dimensions alongside biological and psychological factors. Within the Restoration & Governance Pathway, addiction is approached as a disruption of attachment, agency, and spiritual grounding—requiring more than symptom management alone.

This work aligns with emerging frameworks, including perspectives reflected by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, that acknowledge addiction as a condition deeply intertwined with spiritual dislocation, loss of meaning, and fractured identity. Recovery, therefore, must address not only behavior, but restoration of personhood, responsibility, and capacity over time.

Within this framework, addiction-related care is integrated into restoration, formation, and long-term stewardship—supporting individuals as they recover agency, rebuild trust, and re-enter responsibility at a sustainable pace.

Scope Clarifier

Care related to addiction within this pathway is:

faith-integrated and formation-oriented
attentive to spiritual, relational, and identity dimensions
designed to complement medical, clinical, and community-based recovery supports

This pathway does not replace detoxification, inpatient treatment, or emergency medical care. When higher levels of intervention are required, appropriate referrals and collaboration are prioritized.

Within this framework, addiction is understood as a response to fragmentation—often arising where creativity, agency, pain, and meaning have been compressed or misdirected. Many individuals carrying addictive patterns are not deficient in capacity, but overwhelmed by it, lacking structures that help integrate intensity, imagination, and inner life in life-giving ways.