12 Steps/principles Of Narcotics Anonymous

Front 1

Step One

Back 1

We admitted that we were powerless over our addiction, that our lives had become unmanageable.

Front 2

Step Two

Back 2

We came to believe that a power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.

Front 3

Step Three

Back 3

We made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood Him.

Front 4

Step Four

Back 4

We made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.

Front 5

Step Five

Back 5

We admitted to God, to ourselves and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs.

Front 6

Step Six

Back 6

We were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character.

Front 7

Step Seven

Back 7

We humbly asked Him to remove our shortcomings.

Front 8

Step Eight

Back 8

We made a list of all persons we harmed, and became willing to make amends to them all.

Front 9

Step Nine

Back 9

We made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others.

Front 10

Step Ten

Back 10

We continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it.

Front 11

Step Eleven

Back 11

We sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God as we understood Him, praying only for knowledge of His will for us and the power to carry that out.

Front 12

Step Twelve

Back 12

Having had a spiritual awakening as a result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to addicts, and to practice these principles in all our affairs.