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While new attendees aren’t required to make contributions, it is highly encouraged as it’s one of the most effective ways of helping yourself and your peers learn from your experiences. This will help you to find your nearest group, or you can find groups further afield if you prefer to attend a meeting that is less close to home. If you’re looking for support in your addiction recovery journey, Narcotics Anonymous is an excellent place to start.

Here’s a short guide of words used at NA sessions, as set out in the NA Official, Intro to NA, leaflets and books. Miracles Happen describes the early years of the NA organization. This book contains many photographs of early literature and meeting places. In New York City, a recovering alcoholic, Danny Carlsen, formed another organization called Narcotics Anonymous. It died in the mid-1960s and was never related to the Sun Valley NA Kinnon. Narcotics Anonymous Publishings

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The NA World Service Conference (WSC) is a bi-annual service meeting made up of the Regional Delegates of the seated Regions of the world and the members of the NA World Board. This service conference has the executive right to make decisions for the entire NA Fellowship. This includes electing members to serve on the World Board, approving all new NA Literature, service material, and making policy decisions that affect the fellowship including the organizational structure. This responsibility has been executed as recently as the late 1990s when the World Service Conference voted to re-structure the NA Service structure including the removal of the Board of Trustees, Board of Directors, and several other World Service level committees (Public Information, Hospitals & Institutions, Literature, and Translations) replacing them with a single board elected by the conference. Coming out of prison or a treatment facility? There is some good shared experience in this pamphlet. Starting with an online group can also be a helpful first step if you feel particularly anxious about attending NA for the first time. Finding Help Today

For Anyone New Coming to A.A.; For Anyone Referring People to A.A." AA World Services, Inc . Retrieved June 15, 2006.Short answer no. NA is not a religious organisation, nor does it discriminate against anyone holding religious, spiritual or secular views, you are free to believe, or not believe, anything you want. Though some of our meetings are held in church halls it is simply because they are available, amenable and affordable. We have no affiliation with any of these establishments we simply rent rooms as do many other community organisations. Crape, B. L., Latkin, C. A., Laris, A. S., & Knowlton, A. R. (February 2002). "The effects of sponsorship in 12-step treatment of injection drug users". Drug and Alcohol Dependence. 65 (3): 291–301. doi: 10.1016/S0376-8716(01)00175-2. PMID 11841900. {{ cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list ( link) NA calls itself a spiritual program of recovery from the disease of addiction. The NA program places importance on developing a working relationship with a " higher power". [14] The literature suggests that members formulate their own personal understanding of a higher power. The only suggested guidelines are that this power is "loving, caring, and greater than one's self and more powerful than the disease of addiction". a b The A.A. Member— Medications & Other Drugs (PDF), Alcoholics Anonymous World Services, Inc., 2018 While the twelve-step program, and therefore the foundation of NA isn’t explicitly religious, it does refer to spirituality, ‘God’, and a ‘higher power’.