NARCOTICS ANONYMOUS AND ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS
Narcotics Anonymous, which is made up of thousands of recovering addicts from all over the world, started in July 1953
when a bunch of addicts got together to help each other come off drugs and stay clean, in order to lead happy lives again.
In fact, it grew out of the experience of Alcoholics Anonymous, the self-help organisation for alcoholics which has been flourishing since 1935. AA discovered a secret which has revolutionised the treatment of alcoholism – the best person to help a drinking alcoholic is an alcoholic who has discovered how to stay sober.
In the same way, the best person to help an addict in the grip of chemical dependence is another addict who has discovered how to stay off drugs.
Narcotics Anonymous has no clinics or hospitals. It has no counsellors, no social workers, no policemen, no clergymen, no doctors or authority figures telling you what to do.
Narcotics Anonymous is just a bunch of ex-junkies and ex-pillheads helping each other stay off drugs. (Of course, there are social workers, policemen, clergymen and doctors in NA. But they are there because they too are addicts staying well.) It’s just the same in Alcoholics Anonymous.
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