Drug addiction can take a person’s life in directions they never intended. It often begins as relief, curiosity, or escape and slowly becomes something that consumes everything. Relationships strain. Trust breaks. Work suffers. The individual loses themselves. Families often feel helpless, praying for change while watching someone they love slip further away.
At Tallgrass, we understand the pain and confusion of drug addiction because many of us have lived it. We know what it feels like to wake up fearful, ashamed, or overwhelmed. We know the weight of trying to stop on your own, only to fall back into the same patterns again. We also know something more important. Recovery is possible. Spiritual healing is real. A new life can begin.
Tallgrass offers a spiritually grounded approach to drug addiction recovery, built on the 12 steps and supported by a loving community that walks beside every guest from the moment they arrive.
Drug addiction can overwhelm someone mentally, emotionally, spiritually, and socially. While the substances people use may differ, the internal experience often sounds the same. Many individuals describe the following before finding recovery:
Feeling controlled by the substance
They want to stop but feel powerless to do so.
Living in isolation
Relationships suffer, and they withdraw out of shame or fear.
A constant cycle of guilt and regret
They promise themselves and others they will quit but cannot.
Emotional instability
Anxiety, fear, and unpredictability become part of daily life.
Loss of self trust
They no longer recognize the person they have become.
Belief that nothing will help
After broken promises and repeated attempts to quit alone, hope begins to fade.
One on One Mentorship
Each guest is paired with a volunteer mentor who is actively living in recovery and practicing the steps. Mentors provide:
Daily Spiritual Structure
Guests participate in meditation, meetings, Big Book study, and group discussions that help them grow emotionally and spiritually. These daily rhythms help stabilize the mind and reconnect the individual to themselves and others.
Community and Connection
Tallgrass is supported by nearly four hundred volunteers who nurture, guide, and encourage each guest. This network of people creates an atmosphere filled with love, honesty, and shared purpose.
Safe, Peaceful Environment
Our setting feels like a home, not a facility. Guests feel safe enough to be vulnerable, ask for help, and begin letting go of the fear that kept them stuck.
Lifelong Access to Community Support
Guests are welcomed back for meetings, meals, events, and fellowship for life. Recovery does not end after 30 nights. It begins there.
Tallgrass provides support for individuals experiencing addiction to:
While the substances differ, the Tallgrass solution remains the same. A spiritually grounded recovery experience that restores clarity, hope, and community.
Clarity and Stability
The fog begins to lift. Guests feel clearer, calmer, and more grounded.
Emotional Healing
Underlying fears, resentments, and pain begin to loosen their grip. Guests learn to face life with honesty and courage.
Spiritual Awakening
Through the 12 steps, guests connect to principles that bring peace, purpose, and strength.
Community Support
Guests build friendships, meet mentors, and become part of a fellowship that supports long term recovery.
Healthy Habits and Daily Practices
Meditation, journal work, meetings, prayer, service, and accountability become part of a new way of life.
Rebuilding Relationships
As guests change, families begin healing. Trust grows as loved ones witness genuine shifts in behavior and attitude.
Recognizing these signs is the first act of courage on the road to recovery.
We offer a recovery path that works
The 12 steps have helped millions. They help our guests too.
We offer community and belonging
No one heals alone. Tallgrass surrounds guests with love and accountability
We offer lived experience
Our staff and volunteers understand addiction because they have overcome it.
We offer lifelong connection
Guests can return to meetings, meals, and events forever.
We offer true spiritual healing
Guests learn to live with purpose, peace, and emotional stability.
Find freedom from addiction with a caring, spiritual community. Call or message us your new life starts now.
For 20 years, Tallgrass has been providing Recovery that works.
Through the 12 Steps, spiritual awakening, and a community that refuses to give up, people who arrive consumed by fear, isolation, and hopelessness begin to experience freedom, connection, purpose, and a life of service. For two decades, Tallgrass has turned what begins as a desperate search for a way out into something extraordinary: a new freedom, a new happiness, and a life worth living.
Help us celebrate the people, partnerships, and stories that made 20 years of recovery possible.
When: Nov 10th, 2026, 05:30 pm – 08:00 pm (CDT)
Where: The Country Club of Sioux Falls 3400 W 22nd St Sioux Falls, SD
*If you are unable to attend the event, there are tables available to purchase to gift to the recovery community.*
*All proceeds support individuals in need who would not otherwise be able to enter the Tallgrass 30-day residential program. Part of the reason our program succeeds is that Tallgrass believes in “skin in the game.” Your gift supports our mission and keeps Tallgrass affordable.*
Clinical research from Harvard Medical School shows that Twelve Step Facilitation (TSF) significantly improves long-term recovery outcomes. Compared to other leading therapies, individuals in TSF programs experienced 60–71% higher rates of sustained remission in the first year. Even more compelling, at a 3-year follow-up, abstinence rates were 50% higher among those engaged in Twelve Step–based care.
These results are driven by one key factor: active participation in recovery communities like AA, which has been shown to create lasting behavioral change, stronger support systems, and improved accountability.
At Tallgrass Recovery, our Twelve Step Program approach is designed to connect you with these proven pathways to long-term sobriety—so recovery is not just possible, but sustainable.