- Narcotics Anonymous is a global, community-based organization with a multi-lingual and multicultural membership.
- NA was founded in 1953, and our membership growth was minimal during our initial twenty years as an organization.
- Since the publication of our Basic Text in 1983, the number of members and meetings has increased dramatically.
- Today, NA members hold more than 67,000 meetings weekly in 133 countries.
- We offer recovery from the effects of addiction through working a twelve-step program, including regular attendance at group meetings.
- Utilizes a Twelve-Step approach to stop using drugs
- NA members learn from one another how to live drug free & recover from the effects of drug addiction
- It teaches basic spiritual principles such as honesty, open-mindedness, and willingness, to name a few
- The group atmosphere provides help from peers and offers an ongoing support network for addicts who wish to pursue and maintain a drug-free lifestyle.
- Our name, Narcotics Anonymous, is not meant to imply a focus on any particular drug; NAs approach makes no distinction between drugs including alcohol.
- Membership is free, and we have no affiliation with any organizations outside of NA including governments, religions, law enforcement groups, or medical and psychiatric associations.
- Through all of our service efforts and our cooperation with others seeking to help addicts, we strive to reach a day when every addict in the world has an opportunity to experience our message of recovery in his or her own language and culture.
- The NA literature has been translated into 47 different languages already