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THE RECOVERY COAST AREA OF NARCOTICS ANONYMOUS IS A

WEST CENTRAL FLORIDA FELLOWSHIP FOR RECOVERING ADDICTS


NARCOTICS ANONYMOUS

INTRODUCTION

In NA, we follow a program adapted from Alcoholics Anonymous. More than one million people have recovered in A.A. most of them just as hopelessly addicted to alcohol as we were to drugs. We are grateful to the A.A. Fellowship for showing us the way to a new life. The Twelve Steps of Narcotics Anonymous, as adapted from A.A. are the basis of our recovery program. We have only broadened their perspective. We follow the same path with a single exception: Our identification as addicts is all-inclusive with respect to any mood-changing, mind-altering  substance. Alcoholism is too limited a term for us: Our problem is not a specific substance, it is a disease called addiction. We believe that as a fellowship, we have been guided by a Greater Consciousness and are grateful for the direction that has enabled us to build upon a proven program of recovery. 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 our 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.

Narcotics Anonymous, Basic Text, page: 25

 


CLARITY STATEMENT

We are presented with a dilemma when NA members identify themselves as addicts and alcoholics, or talk about living clean and sober. The clarity of the NA message is blurred. To speak in this manner suggests that there are two diseases, that one drug is somehow separate from the rest, requiring special recognition. Narcotics Anonymous makes no distinction between drugs. Our identification as addicts is all-inclusive, which allows us to concentrate on our similarities, not our differences.