For some Minnesotans struggling with addiction, church is not a place for help.
“We used to say that we tend to shoot our wounded instead of caring for them,” said Rev. Ed Treat, founder of The Center of Addiction & Faith, which is partnering with Washington County’s Opioid Settlement Fund to prepare local faith communities to better respond to addiction.
Treat knows what it’s like to struggle with addiction and how it’s a taboo topic in religious communities…