Addiction Recovery Program

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Addiction Recovery Program
Mormon 12-Step Addiction Recovery Program

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints offers a program to help persons struggling with addictions and compulsive behaviors. Healing from addictive and compulsive behaviors begins as participants turn their hearts to the Savior, Jesus Christ. The program encourages greater connection with God and increased support from others. The name of the program is "Healing through the Savior: The Addiction Recover Program."

Hope of Recovery is found through the Healing Powers of the Great Physician

A person who is struggling with an addiction may at times feel that there is no hope for recovery. He or she may at times ask the same question that the prophet Jeremiah asked, “Is there no balm in Gilead; is there no physician there?” Jeremiah 8:22. The answer is that Jesus Christ, the Great Physician, is that balm in Gilead. Elder Patrick Kearon of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles has taught, “We find healing and relief only when we bring ourselves to the feet of the great physician: our Savior, Jesus Christ.”[1]

The 12-Step Recovery Guide

The addiction recovery program’s 12-step framework helps participants overcome addictive and compulsive behaviors through inspired principles of recovery: honesty, hope, trust in God, humility and forgiveness. It includes a confidential network of support and online resources that help them experience a change of heart and find healing.[2] The 12 steps in the Healing through the Savior: The Addiction Recovery Program are adapted from the 12 steps of the Alcoholics Anonymous World Services Inc.[3]

The free and confidential recovery groups, which are not limited to Church members, are available worldwide in person or virtually. They are led by volunteer facilitators, many of whom have recovered from their own addiction-related challenges. In 2023, addiction recovery meetings were held in 30 different countries and in 17 different languages. Virtual and in-person meeting times and locations are listed on addictionrecovery.ChurchofJesusChrist.org. Family members of the person seeking recovery are also encouraged to attend the program.

* Healing through the Savior: The Addiction Recovery Program 12-Step Recovery Guide

Additionally the recovery guide includes 12 videos that were launched on 1 September 2015 by Mormon Channel.org. The trailer for the video series can be viewed below:


The 12 Steps of the Program

In a new video published by Mormon Channel.org on 1 September 2015, Dr. Kevin McCauley uses visual images to help people who are going through recovery to feel better understood, and to help their family and friends envision that recovery is possible regardless of the addiction a person is struggling with. In the video, Dr. McCauley points out:

Addiction is never an escape from responsibility for our choices and our actions, but it does affect our brains like a disease that is difficult to control. Because addiction rewires the brain, the substances and behaviors we are addicted to may seem impossible to quit. However, there is hope; the brain can change.

You can view the video below:

12 Steps to Change Video Series