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NA is a worldwide fellowship of recovering addicts who help each other stay clean. NA was founded in July of 1953 in Southern California. It grew very slowly for the first 20 years, but began to spread quite rapidly in the early seventies. By the eighties, that growth became explosive, in part as a result of our Basic Text, Narcotics Anonymous. |
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Today there are over 44,000 meetings in 127 countries worldwide. Here in the Valley of the Sun, NA was formed in the late sixties and has grown to about 220 meetings per week in the metropolitan area. The name Narcotics Anonymous does not refer to any specific drug or group of drugs. |
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Our program focuses on addiction and recovery, not specific drugs. -Would someone please read: What is the Narcotics Anonymous program? Thank you. There are two types of meetings, open meetings and closed meetings. Open meetings are accessible to everyone. |
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Closed meetings are for addicts only. Groups are a place for sharing of personal experience, strength and hope. Groups are the most effective way to carry the message to the addict who still suffers. Groups meet regularly at a specified time and place and follow the Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions of NA. |
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Groups do not have any opinion on outside issues, such as politics or religion. Groups have no outside affiliations and receive no outside financial support. NA has no treatment centers or halfway houses, for example. |
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Our service structure in Narcotics Anonymous is based almost entirely on volunteer work done by our members. Narcotics Anonymous follows a Twelve Step program based on a set of principles written so simply that we can follow them in our daily lives. |
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1. We admitted that we were powerless over our addiction, that our lives had become unmanageable. 2. We came to believe that a power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity. 3. We made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God, as we understood Him. |
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4. We made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves. 5. We admitted to God, ourselves, and another human being the exact nature of our wrongs. 6. We were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character. 7. We humbly ask Him to remove our shortcomings. |
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8. We made a list of all persons we had harmed and became willing to make amends to them all. 9. We made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others. 10. We continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong, promptly admitted it. |
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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 it out. 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. |
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We feel that our approach to the disease of addiction is completely realistic, for the therapeutic value of one addict helping another addict is without parallel. We feel that our way is practical, for one addict can best understand and help another addict. We believe that the sooner we face our problems within our society, in everyday living, just that much faster do we become responsible, productive members of society -Stop |
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