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1 10/14/2008 10:24:11 10/14/2008 10:24:11 AMNARCOTICSANONYMOUSO ther Publications Available from NA World ServicesIt Works: How and WhyJust for Today, Revised Daily Meditations for Recovering AddictsThe NA Step Working GuidesSponsorshipAn Introductory Guide to NA, RevisedNA White BookletThe Group Booklet, RevisedBehind the WallsIn Times of IllnessTwelve Concepts for NA ServiceNA: A Resource in Your CommunityWho, What, How, and Why (IP #1)The Group (IP #2)Another Look (IP #5)Recovery and Relapse (IP #6)Am I an Addict? (IP #7)Just for Today (IP #8)Living the Program (IP #9)Working Step Four in NA (IP #10)Sponsorship, Revised (IP #11)The Triangle of Self-Obsession (IP #12)By Young Addicts, For Young Addicts (IP #13)One Addict s (IP #14)PI and the NA Member (IP #15)For the Newcomer (IP #16)For Those in Treatment (IP #17)Self-Acceptance (IP #19)Hospitals & Institutions Service and the NA Member (IP #20)The Loner Staying Clean in Isolation (IP #21)Welcome to Narcotics Anonymous (IP #22)Staying Clean on the Outside (IP #23) Hey!

2 What s the Basket For? (IP #24)Self-Support: Principle and Practice (IP #25)Accessibility for Those with Additional Needs (IP #26)For the Parents or Guardians of Young People in NA (IP #27)For a complete list of NA literature in all languages, visit our website at EditionNarcotics Anonymous World Services, , CaliforniaFELLOWSHIPAPPROVEDFELLOWSHIPAP PROVEDT welve Steps and Twelve Traditionsreprinted for adaptation by permission of AA World Services, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1986, 1987, 1988, 2008 byNarcotics Anonymous World Services, rights Service Offi cePO Box 9999 Van Nuys, CA 91409, USATel Fax : Service Offi ce EUROPE48 Rue de l t B-1050 Brussels, BelgiumTel +32/2/646 6012 Fax +32/2/649 9239 World Service Offi ce CANADA150 Britannia Rd. E. Unit 21 Mississauga, Ontario, L4Z 2A4, CanadaTel Fax 1983. Second Edition 1983. Third Edition Edition (Revised) 1986. Fourth Edition 1987. Fifth Edition Edition Anniversary Commemorative Sixth Edition published in 08 4 3 2 1 ISBN 9781557767349 (Hardcover) WSO Catalog Item No.

3 EN-1101 ISBN 9781557767356 ( Softcover ) WSO Catalog Item No. EN-1102 ISBN 9781557767486 (Commemorative Edition) WSO Catalog Item No. EN-1103 This is NA Fellowship-approved Anonymous, and The NA Wayare registered trademarks of Narcotics Anonymous World Services, Incorporated. vTable of Contents Our Symbol xv Preface to the Sixth Edition xvii Preface to the First Edition xxi Introduction xxvOur Program: Narcotics AnonymousChapter OneWho Is an Addict? .. 3 Chapter TwoWhat Is the Narcotics Anonymous Program? .. 9 Chapter ThreeWhy Are We Here? .. 13 Chapter FourHow It Works .. 17 Chapter FiveWhat Can I Do? .. 54 Chapter SixThe Twelve Traditions of Narcotics Anonymous .. 60 Chapter SevenRecovery and Relapse .. 77 Chapter EightWe Do Recover .. 87 Chapter NineJust for Today Living the Program.

4 93 Chapter TenMore Will Be Revealed .. 101viOur Members ShareIntroduction to Our Members Share .. 111 BeginningsReflections .. 117 The short passages that begin this section are excerpted from sto-ries in previous editions of the basic text . I Found the Only NA Meeting in the World .. 121 When he was using he went from one mother to another from his mother s house to the military to marriage until his wife tired of the insanity and found the only NA meeting in the world. In his story from our First Edition, this addict admits that it took him time but finally he learned to take action and be responsible for Serenity .. 128He lived in a place that many call paradise, but in his story from our First Edition, this beachcomber shares that for an addict, skid row is in the mind. Through NA, he has found a sense of peace and a new way of life. If You Want What We Have .. 135 After a lifetime of using, this southern gentleman learned that the most gracious thing he could do was open the doors to an NA meeting.

5 In this story from our First Edition, he recalls that the first time a man told him he loved him was in Narcotics Anony-mous. Fearful Mother .. 142In this story originally published in our Little White book and added to the basic text at the Second Edition, a mother learns that she can come out of the paralyzing fear of addiction and turn her whole life around. She claims her seat as a woman in NA and hopes that one day more women will find recovery. Jails, Institutions, and Recovery .. 147 This addict found freedom behind bars through the Fellowship of Narcotics Anonymous. This is a story from our First Was Different .. 151 Not all addicts reach jails or institutions in order to hit their bot-tom. In his story, originally published in the Little White book and later included in our Second Edition, this different addict ex-plains that his disease kept him confined to a life of fear and loneli-ness. He found serenity in a simple life in Narcotics HomeReflections.

6 157 These snapshots of our members experiences finding NA are meant to be similar to the sharing at a topic a Meeting, They Will Come .. 161He checked himself into treatment to avoid prison, but while he was there he found hope in the pages of a basic text . There was no NA in his part of rural Illinois, so he started a meeting and he s stayed clean through his own growing pains and those of the Point .. 165 This addict from the wrong side of Chicago s south side lost his best friend and his marriage to the disease of addiction. Recovery hasn t restored the things he s lost, but it has helped him make amends. Carrying the Message .. 171 They used together and got clean together, but this addict got ac-tive in the program and his brother did not. This Saudi Arabian member found in the loss of his brother a powerful drive to carry the Addict, Young NA FellowshipGrow Up Together .. 176 She found NA when she was only fifteen.

7 From her very first meet-ing, she knew NA was where she needed to be. Now, more than twenty years later, she s gone from a hostile, wasted teenager to a grateful member of the Quiet Satisfaction .. 179At the end of his using even the other street boys and the dealers didn t want him around, but NA felt like home from his very first meeting. Sometimes he is the only person in the room, but that only renews this Kenyan addict s commitment to Only Requirement .. 184 When he got to NA he was also in a drug-replacement program. He wanted what he saw in the rooms of Narcotics Anonymous, but was afraid of returning to his old life if he quit methadone. For ten months he went to meetings every day and finally he got to Dignity .. 187 She walked into NA literally and was treated with more love and respect than she ever had been. For this Mexican woman, a chance encounter on the beach opened the door to hope and freedom.

8 Second Chance .. 192A host of bad choices ultimately led to relapse for this addict with thirteen years clean. It was a hard road back to recovery, but NA loved her until she could love herself. Sowing the Seed .. 198NA helped this Israeli addict rediscover his love of life. He had al-ways felt like an outsider before he got clean. Now he has a home group and understands fellowshipping to be a spiritual principle. Sandwich .. 203A simple act of kindness showed this Dutch addict that he be-longed in Narcotics Anonymous. He worked through his fears that a relationship with God would be barred to him because he is gay and learned to trust the power of Spirit of Service .. 208 This addict from Iran was the most important person in the room for two years before he got clean. Now he devotes himself to NA sponsorship, the steps, and Brazilian Full of It! .. 214As an entertainer she traveled the world, but found herself in the isolation of addiction wherever she went.

9 This dancer found grace out of the spotlight, in the rooms of Chance to Live .. 220 When he reached the point where he couldn t live with or with-out drugs, this Australian addict attempted suicide. He survived through grace, and now he s been clean more than sixteen years. At the End of the Road .. 224 She thought she was a traveler, but it was really a need to escape herself. This addict from Norway found her way home on a Medi-terranean of ..Reflections .. 231 These members share briefly about finding recovery in NA re-gardless of age, race, sexual identity, creed, religion, or lack of religion. Finally Connected .. 235 After a lifetime of feeling different, this lesbian addict found the key to connection in a common needs Third Step for Me,One Giant Leap for My Recovery .. 240 Addiction took him away from his Orthodox Jewish roots, but recovery helped him forge a new relationship with a God of his Ora Koutou.

10 245NA s message got through to this Maori addict. She got clean out of spite, but she stayed clean because of hope. Growing Up in NA .. 250 When she got clean at sixteen in Chicago, she had no way of know-ing that more than twenty years later she would wind up in Italy, feeling how service connects us Serene Heart .. 254At nine years clean, he was diagnosed with depression and schizo-phrenia, diseases he continues to treat with medication and thera-py. This addict learned that while mental illness is an outside issue in NA, dealing with it in his personal recovery is very much an inside issue for Gang Leader to Meeting Leader .. 261As an African American gang member, he didn t think he had a future. But NA kept its promise, and now he has eight years clean and the life he always Unique .. 264 Because she is HIV-positive, this transsexual addict was nearly denied surgery. Waiting helped her build a stronger relationship with a Higher Textbook Case.