Resources for professionals
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.
For more information about our program, we invite you to review some of the items described below.
Service Material: All available service material, from handbooks to bulletins, from locally-developed resources to material pertaining to our World Service Conference, etc.
NAWS Projects & Surveys: NAWS surveys are opportunities for members to share their views and help shape the projects planned for future conference cycles.
Workshop and Issue Discussion Materials: Service meetings and workshops can be vital places for discussion, brainstorming, sharing experience, and offering support to groups struggling with issues that affect our ability to carry the message. Just as in our personal recovery, we don’t have to do it alone.
PR Resources: There are no promises we could make, no comparisons or endorsements, no claims or opinions that could be as powerful as experience, strength, and hope. Sharing from the heart is the most attractive thing we have to offer. Helping addicts find us, explaining NA to those around us, ensuring that it’s safe for addicts to attend meetings—these are goals of our public relations policy.
Fellowship Development Resources: Fellowship Development is an umbrella term for the many ways service bodies help to grow NA. From local service workshops and outreach campaigns to trips overseas to help addicts launch NA groups in their own communities, Fellowship Development ultimately aims to carry our message to more addicts.
World Service Conference: The purpose of the conference is to define and take action according to the group conscience of Narcotics Anonymous and fulfill the WSC Mission Statement: to honor the spiritual principles of NA’s Twelve Steps, Traditions, and Concepts for Service; and to use resources efficiently to sustain its functions.