Native Americans face a deadly drug crisis. Tapping into culture is helping them heal. Jasten "Jazz" Bears Tail is a Native American dancer. However, Jazz disappeared from competitions a couple of years ago while battling his addiction. The disease, which also afflicted his father, nearly killed him twice, wrecked his marriage, pulled him from his children and shredded his confidence. "With us natives, when we’re impure and out doing stuff we’re not supposed to do, our spirit leaves us," he said. "There’s no life in you, no glimmer of hope in your eye. You’re pretty much a lost soul just roaming around." Jazz, a descendant of the Hidatsa and Sioux tribes, sought treatment for drug addiction in Arizona and fought his way back. Now, he lives in Bismarck and mentors other Native Americans in treatment at the Good Road Recovery Center. A growing number of residents have sought treatment in this community, which has been inundated by drugs largely supplied by Mexican cartels that are flooding the U.S. every year with thousands of kilos of methamphetamines, heroin, cocaine and fentanyl. "Many native families are suffering from generational abuse, eroding traditional values and destabilizing families" across the country, according to the National Congress of American Indians' website. "Inflated rates of substance abuse plague tribal communities." In June, Jazz became the cultural specialist at the treatment center in Bismarck, about a two-hour drive southeast of the reservation. He brought knowledge of his culture, coupled with his experience going through 12-step addiction treatment. "When we do the right thing, our spirit will come back to us," he said. "You get your strength back. I felt something greater than myself guiding me, an internal coach that I had been missing for a while."