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What is our message? The message is that an addict, any addict, can stop using drugs, lose the desire to use, and find a new way to live. Our message is hope and the promise of freedom.

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“When new members come to meetings, our sole interest is in their desire for freedom from active addiction and how we can be of help.”

It Works: How and Why, “Third Tradition”

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Never before have so many clean addicts, of their own choice and in free society, been able to meet where they please, to maintain their recovery in complete creative freedom.

Basic Text, “We Do Recover”

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Narcotics Anonymous sprang from the Alcoholics Anonymous Program of the late 1940s, with meetings first emerging in the Los Angeles area of California, USA, in the early Fifties. The NA program started as a small US movement that has grown into one of the world's oldest and largest organizations of its type.

Today, Narcotics Anonymous is well established throughout much of the Americas, Western Europe, Australia, and New Zealand. Newly formed groups and NA communities are now scattered throughout the Indian subcontinent, Africa, East Asia, the Middle East, and Eastern Europe. Narcotics Anonymous books and information pamphlets are currently available in 49 languages.

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December 30, 2025

Action and Prayer
Page 380
“…growth is not the result of wishing but of action and prayer.“
Basic Text, p. 37
Sometimes it seems as if our recovery is growing much too slowly. We struggle with the steps; we wrestle with the same problems; we labor under the same uncomfortable feelings day after day. We wish that recovery would move a little faster so we could find some comfort!

Wishing doesn't work in recovery; this isn't a program of magic. If wishes cured addiction, we all would have been well long ago! What does give us relief in recovery is action and prayer.

Narcotics Anonymous has worked for so many addicts because it is a carefully designed program of action and prayer. The actions we undertake in each of the steps bring more and more recovery to each area of our lives. And prayer keeps us connected to our Higher Power. Together, action and prayer keep us well-grounded in recovery.

Just for Today: My recovery is too precious to just wish about it. Today is a good day for action and prayer.

A Spiritual Principle a Day

December 30, 2025

Letting Trust Take Root
Page 376
“Simply allowing someone to be with us as we go about our lives can be priceless.“
Living Clean, Chapter 2, “Connection to Others”
Being a member of NA allows us to experience something many of us were looking for all along, whether we knew it or not–a sense of community. We found our people! But then, we may look around at our fellow addicts and think, I'm supposed to trust these people? The answer is, not all of them, and not all at once. An H&I speaker often joked, “The good news is, there's hope. The bad news is, it's us!” Like love and courage, trust usually begins with action, and the feeling comes later. We start with a sponsor and grow our circle from there.

We don't have to like everyone in NA, but we do need to recover with some of them. After being clean for a while, we often feel a special connection to the members we got clean with, the people who were around in early recovery. We may grow to appreciate the traits or qualities we don't like about some fellow members–we know them well enough to trust they are who they are, and there's something reliable about that. We show up for each other, warts and all.

“My mom was a difficult person with few friends at the end of her life,” a member wrote. “We didn't expect anyone but our immediate family to attend her memorial service. I looked up to see members of ‘my crew'–the folks I cleaned up with–walking in. They didn't know my mom, but they knew me.”

Being part of the NA community helps us develop a practical form of trust, which we then find useful in so many other areas. We show up for others–and let them show up for us–in our family, work, and romantic relationships. We allow others to be who they are, and we have the courage and willingness to be who we are alongside them. We share the road together.
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Trust can sometimes spring up in unlikely places. I will be myself, allow others to be themselves, and let trust take root where it will.

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