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Our primary purpose is to carry a message to the still-suffering addict. NA-Recovery.org is a community of addicts, working together to share our experience, strength, and hope to stay clean, Just for Today.
Our chat room is open 24/7. If there isn't anyone chatting at the moment, someone will be by shortly.
Our members come together to carry a message that an addict, any addict, can stop using, lose the desire to use, and find a new way to live.
We can help people find local meetings, Narcotics Anonymous literature, and local helplines.
In addition to providing links to face to face meetings and resources for addicts, our chatroom also hosts Online meetings at Ten (10) PM Eastern Standard Time.
We have a variety of meeting formats, and all topics are also open for attendees to share on whatever is affecting their recovery today.
We come to Narcotics Anonymous by various means and believe that our common denominator is that we failed to come to terms with our addiction. Because of the variety of addicts found within our Fellowship, we approach the solution contained within this book in general terms. We pray
that we have been searching and thorough, so that every addict who reads this volume will find the hope that we have found.
Based on our experience, we believe that every addict, including the potential addict, suffers from an incurable disease of body, mind, and spirit. We were in the grip of a hopeless dilemma, the solution of which is spiritual in nature. Therefore, this book will deal with spiritual matters.
We are not a religious organization. Our program is a set of spiritual principles through which we are recovering from a seemingly hopeless state of mind and body.
The above three paragraphs are excerpted from Narcotics Anonymous pg XI ©
Narcotics Anonymous World Services, Inc. All rights reserved.
We believe that online rooms like ours have a unique purpose in recovery. We are here to carry a message to the still-suffering addict, when they first reach out
for help, and to come together with other addicts from all over the world, to form a global community, which truly is indicative of the world-wide fellowship of Narcotics Anonymous.
We feel that online recovery is a resource, which can be very valuable to many people, however it is not a replacement for a face to face program of recovery. While we have the unique opportunity to connect,
a conversation with a stranger in a chat room is not a replacement for the face to face, personal connection that so many addicts are missing when they first come to Narcotics Anonymous. We have found, through our own
experience that with a strong "real life" program, online groups can be a helpful supplement, to chat with addicts worldwide, to share news of local areas, to collect resources, and to share our experience, strength, and hope
when other people in our lives may not be available, or during times of illness when it's not physically possible to get out to a face to face meeting.
Similarly, an online sponsor is not a replacement for a sponsor in person. For many of us, a sponsor was the first truly open and honest relationship we learned to have. Someone who could know, simply from looking,
that something was up, that we needed to talk, or we needed a hug. In person, we are often held more accountable than we might be simply interacting with words on a screen. We feel that there is no replacement for the
relationship we can form with another addict in person, who can guide us through the steps, and help us find our way through the NA program.
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