FOR THE NEWCOMER

You don’t have to be clean when you get here, but after your

first meeting we suggest that you keep coming back and come

clean. You don’t have to wait for an overdose or jail sentence

to get help from NA, nor is addiction a hopeless condition

from which there is no recovery.

It is possible to overcome the desire to use drugs with the

help of the Twelve Steps Program of Narcotics Anonymous

and the fellowship of recovering addicts.

Our 24 hr Helpline Number is 866-935-8811

What Can I Do?
Begin your own program taking Step One . When by we fully

concede to our innermost selves that we are powerless over our

addiction, we have taken a big step in our recovery. Many of us

have had some reservations at this point, so give yourself a break

and be as thorough as possible from the start. Go on to Step Two,

and so forth, and as you go on you will come to an understanding

of the program for yourself.

If you are in an institution of any kind and have stopped using for

the present, you can with a clear mind try this way of life.

THE TWELVE STEPS

1. We admitted that we were powerless over Addiction,

that our lives had become unmanageable.
2. We came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves

could restore us to sanity.
3. We made a decision to turn our will and our lives

over to the care of God as we understood Him.

4. We made a searching and fearless moral inventory

of ourselves.
5. We admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another

human being the exact nature of our wrongs.
6. We were entirely ready to have God remove all these
defects of character.
7. We humbly asked Him to remove our shortcomings.
8. We made a list of all persons we had harmed, and
became willing to make amends to them all.
9. We made direct amends to such people wherever
possible, except when to do so would injure them or
others.
10. We continued to take personal inventory and when

we were wrong promptly admitted it.
11. We sought through prayer and meditation to

improve our conscious contact with God as we

understood Him, praying only for knowledge of His

will for us and the power to carry that out.

12. 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.