'Clean living' used to be just for the 'squares.' Today, living clean is the only way we'd have it. When we practice the principles of our program in all our affairs, we have no reason to feel dirty about our lives or our lifestyles - we're living clean, and grateful to be doing so at last. It's the vitality that comes from the new set of values we develop as we seek a Higher Power's will for us. It's the freshness that comes from owning up to our wrongs and making amends for them. It's the clean that comes from admitting the truth about our addiction rather than hiding or denying our disease. But as we stay 'clean' and work the Twelve Steps, we discover another kind of clean. For us addicts, living clean starts with not using - after all, that's our primary use for the word 'clean' in Narcotics Anonymous. Today, we have a chance to feel clean by living clean. Many of us recall waking too many morning just wishing that, for once, we could feel clean about our ourselves and our lives. The things we did to get our drugs, the way we treated other people, and the way we treated ourselves had us feeling dirty. Worse, though, than any external filth was the way most of us felt inside. Some of us lived in physical squalor, caring neither for our surroundings nor ourselves. The using life is not a clean one - no one knows this better than we do. © 1986 by Narcotics Anonymous World Services, Inc.' As we recover, we gain a new outlook on being clean.Life can become a new adventure for us.' Reprinted from the Little White Booklet, Narcotics Anonymous. We have learned from our group experience that those who keep coming to our meetings regularly stay clean. The newcomer is the most important person at any meeting, because we can only keep what we have by giving it away. We are not interested in what or how much you used or who your connections were, what you have done in the past, how much or how little you have, but only in what you want to do about your problem and how we can help. Anyone may join us regardless of age, race, sexual identity, creed, religion, or lack of religion. 24/7 Marathon Meeting VIRTUAL MEETING SURVEY PLEASE CLICK HERE Welcome to the N.A.N. We are not connected with any political, religious, or law enforcement groups, and are under no surveillance at any time. We have no initiation fees or dues, no pledges to sign, no promises to make to anyone. We are not affiliated with any other organizations. The most important thing about them is that they work.

Our program is a set of principles written so simply that we can follow them in our daily lives. We suggest that you keep an open mind and give yourself a break. There is only one requirement for membership, the desire to stop using. This is a program of complete abstinence from all drugs. We are recovering addicts who meet regularly to help each other stay clean. Narcotics Anonymous is a nonprofit fellowship or society of men and women for whom drugs had become a major problem. Please reach out and talk via phone if you are struggling or call 1-86Ĭonsider using this time to read literature. * If there is urgent or pressing business the executive committee of NEWNA can hopefully deal with what may come up. *Future area service -the church is closed and area Service will be zoom meeting as well.

When we realize what's going on, we may wail, 'But I've been working so hard. 99: After some time in recovery, we may find we are faced with what seem like overwhelming personal problems, angry feelings, and despair. The area guidelines meeting is cancelled for now. 'The Twelve Steps of Narcotics Anonymous are a progressive recovery process established in our daily living.' Basic Text, p. Let’s look out for each other, reach out, help each other and remember, we are NA (Never Alone). Remember it is a we program, and we recover together (even if not in physical proximity). PLEASE CHECK OUR CURRENT MEETING LIST ON THIS WEBSITE FOR THE MOST ACCURATE INFORMATIONįirst, we are, “recovering addicts who meet regularly to help each other stay clean,” groups are autonomous, however, and this is an attempt at some guidelines to carry us through this challenging time. In light of the concern over the Corona virus (COVID-19), some thoughts about how this impacts Narcotics Anonymous locally in the NEW area:

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