For professionals

Does your work bring you into contact with using addicts?

Would you like to know more about NA? 

If the answer to either of these questions is yes, then the UK Public Information (UKPI) Committee is eager to hear from you. UKPI is entrusted by NA’s members with increasing awareness of the existence and effectiveness of NA among the general public and also among professionals whose work brings them into contact with addicts in the UK.

Narcotics Anonymous values the building of relationships with any professionals working with addicts, for example national and local government, the helping professions, and public, private and voluntary organisations which have direct contact with addicts, their families and friends. We maintain successful relationships with many such bodies through regular dialogue.

Our experience shows that we have many non-addict friends who can act as advocates for NA.  UKPI cooperates with professionals and organisations by providing information about NA’s programme for recovery from addiction.

We can arrange for NA members to make presentations in educational facilities, treatment centres and correctional facilities as well as other public venues.

You can download our Presentation For Professionals - 2010.  Narcotics Anonymous literature is also available for sale  to professionals and facilities, and UKPI can help with arrangements for this. 

Some facts about NA in the UK

• NA was founded in 1953 in the USA and is one of the oldest organisations of its type in the world.


• The first UK meeting was in Chelsea in 1980. NA published the ‘Basic Text’ in 1982, and since then the fellowship has grown dramatically.


• NA exists in approximately 139 countries with over 59,900 groups holding weekly meetings; we are growing at the rate of 10,000 new meetings a year worldwide.


• There are over 900 weekly meetings in the UK. NA Hospitals and Institutions local area committees run over 500 meetings in the UK and this number is growing rapidly.


• We have meetings in over 140 treatment or detox units; more than 20 hospitals, 13 young offender institutions and secure units and over 240 prisons.


• The NA National Helpline handles over 20,000 telephone calls each year.


• The UK Service Office of NA opened in 1986 and receives 5,000 telephone calls and emails each year. It processes over a thousand literature orders each year.

Enquiries

For enquiries please email UKPI: pi@ukna.org

To order Narcotics Anonymous Literature please contact The UK Service Office:

UK Public Information Committee, 202 City Road, London EC1V 2PH

Tel: 020 7251 4007

Further Information

• 2010 Membership Survey (currently under development)


• Presentation For Professionals - 2010 (as a pdf)


• Public Relations Statement (as a pdf)