NA Meetings
NA Meetings
Meetings are a key part of the recovery of many addicts.
There are several places to find NA Meetings:-
- Face to Face Meetings (also known as Regular NA Meetings).
- Online Meetings - held in chat rooms on the internet (such as our own UK NA Chat).
- Events such as national and regional conventions, unity days, dances, camping weekends and more.
You do not need to be clean to attend our meetings, the only requirement is a desire to stop using. Many of us were similarly not clean when we first arrived. The fact that many of us manage to stay clean shows that NA really can work.
Try to concentrate on the similarities and not differences in your experiences when listening to others sharing.
Click here to read our pamphlet about attending your first NA meeting. This is intended to relieve anxieties and alay fears you may have regarding attending your initial face to face meeting.
If you are a Health Care Professional, Service Provider or non addict who would like to attend a Meeting of Narcotics Anonymous to see for yourself how our Meetings work then please read the information below.
An Open meeting of Narcotics Anonymous is one that anyone may attend. All are welcome. However, sharing is reserved for addicts and those who think they may have a problem with drugs.
Closed meetings are exclusively for those who consider that they may have a problem with drugs.
The basic premise of anonymity allows addicts to attend meetings without fear of legal or social repercussions. This is an important consideration for an addict thinking about going to his first meeting. Anonymity also supports an atmosphere of equality in meetings. It helps insure that no individual's personality or circumstance will be considered more important than the message of recovery shared in NA.
We ask your help in maintaining our tradition of personal anonymity by not identifying our members by name or in full face photos as members of Narcotics Anonymous, or by describing details of their personal circumstances which could reveal their identities.
In carrying our message of recovery, we welcome articles about our fellowship, but not in terms of personalities. We are not secret, just anonymous. Cooperation by the press has been very good, and we hope that continued exposure given to the Narcotics Anonymous program will play a major role in attracting the many thousands of addicts who need help. We thank you for your understanding.
We keep what we have only with vigilance, and just as freedom for the individual comes from the Twelve Steps, so freedom for the group springs from our traditions. As long as the ties that bind us together are stronger than those that would tear us apart, all will be well.
- Our common welfare should come first; personal recovery depends on NA unity.
- For our group purpose there is but one ultimate authority--a loving God as He may express Himself in our group conscience. Our leaders are but trusted servants, they do not govern.
- The only requirement for membership is a desire to stop using.
- Each group should be autonomous except in matters affecting other groups or NA as a whole.
- Each group has but one primary purpose--to carry the message to the addict who still suffers.
- An NA group ought never endorse, finance, or lend the NA name to any related facility or outside enterprise, lest problems or money, property and prestige divert us from our primary purpose.
- Every NA group ought to be fully self-supporting, declining outside contributions.
- Narcotics Anonymous should remain forever non-professional, but our service centers may employ special workers.
- NA as such, ought never be organized, but we may create service boards or committees directly responsible to those they serve.
- Narcotics Anonymous has no opinion on outside issues,; hence the NA name ought never be drawn into public controversy.
- Our public relations policy is based on attraction rather than promotion; we need always maintain personal anonymity at the level of press, radio and films.
- Anonymity is the spiritual foundation of all our traditions, ever reminding us to place principles before personalities.
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