Our 12-month, faith-based recovery program helps men and women permanently regain physical and mental wellness.

The New Orleans Mission recognizes that addiction is a disease that enslaves its victims. Because it changes your brain chemistry and rewires your thoughts, even addicts who desperately want to get clean often can’t do it on their own. The addict may even grow to hate the drug they are addicted to but they keep going back. For Christians, this might sound familiar in terms of how sin can have a hold over a person. Even the apostle Paul said, “I do not understand what I do. For what I want to do I do not do, but what I hate I do.”

However, the gospel has an answer to the problem of sin in the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ. He paid the price for sin and has given the gift of salvation to anyone who would accept it. This redemptive message is vital to men and women seeking addiction recovery.

Today’s addiction rates are the worst in recorded history. People from all walks of life are losing their homes, health, their jobs, and their families to this disease. And, while those who become addicted to alcohol and drugs experience profound physical, psychological, and spiritual suffering, each addict’s loved ones suffer as well. When addiction is introduced into a family unit, it creates mistrust, discord, worry, and resentment, disrupting close relationships.

For anyone who suffers from alcoholism or drug addiction, there are resources available at the New Orleans Mission that can be used to help a person permanently regain their mental and physical wellness. If you or a loved one, like so many others, have experienced failure in sustained recovery through secular rehabilitation methods, we urge you to try our 12-month, faith-based, residential, substance abuse recovery program. Contact us today.

angel project

An individual suffering from an addiction may show up at their local police station and ask for help. The addict surrenders any drugs or paraphernalia he or she has without the fear of being arrested. An "angel" will walk them through the recovery process.

Developed in 2015, by the Police Department in Gloucester, Mass., the program is now being used by more than 100 law enforcement agencies in 23 states, Lentz said. The agencies in St. Tammany are the first in Louisiana to participate.

“Operation Angel allows those suffering from drug addiction to show up at any police station in St. Tammany Parish and ask for help without going to jail. We would rather you spend 6 months in a treatment program than 6 months in jail.” former covington police chief time lentz