NA History
The year Narcotics Anonymous was founded.
1953
You are a member when...
When you say you are.
We came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.
Step 2
Our common welfare should come...
first.
In some NA communities, it has become customary for members of the fellowship to make a personal commitment to support one particular group...
homegroup
The founder of Narcotics Anonymous.
Jimmy K.
We are people in the grip of a continuing and progressive illness whose ends are always the same:
jails, institutions, and death
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.
Step 12
The only requirement for membership is a desire to...
stop using.
If an addict wants to be a member of Narcotics Anonymous, all that addict needs is...
a desire to stop using.
The state in which NA was founded.
California
After coming to NA, we realized we were...
sick people.
We made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others.
Step 9
Each group should be autonomous...
except in matters affecting other groups or NA as a whole.
Setting up chairs, buying literature, arranging for speakers, cleaning up after the meeting, paying the bills, preparing refreshments.
Service Work
The first NA publication.
The Little Brown Book
If you want what we have to offer, and are willing to make the effort to get it, then you are ready to take...
certain steps
We made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.
Step 4
Each group has but one primary purpose...
to carry the message to the addict who still suffers.
The year the Basic Text was first published.
1982
The year of the first NA phone line.
1960
By following these guidelines in our dealings with others, and society at large, we avoid...
many problems.
We admitted that we were powerless over our addiction, that our lives had become unmanageable.
Step 1
The spiritual foundation of all our Traditions, ever reminding us to place principles before personalities.
Anonymity
World Service Office location.
Van Nuys, California.