Fort Peck Tribes Embrace Natural Recovery From Addiction

The Sioux and Assiniboine tribes are filling the gap they believe traditional treatment leaves.

Marty Reum struggled with addiction for years. It started with alcohol and ended with meth, leading to a dangerous encounter that almost ended his life.   “In 2006, I got stabbed six times in Billings over drugs. Stabbed in the leg, back of the head, missed my lung here, missed my lung here, tore my ear lobe off here with whatever that person was stabbing me with, I still don't know to this day what he stabbed me with, but I almost died," Reum said. He sought professional help, but ultimately his community on the Fort Peck Indian Reservation helped him sustain sobriety, through a method experts call “natural recovery.”