Dec 10th, 2013 at 06:33 PM

Narcotics Anonymous (NA)

describes itself as a "nonprofit fellowship or society of men and women for whom drugs had become a major problem". Narcotics Anonymous uses a traditional 12-step model that has been expanded and developed for people with varied substance abuse issues. and it is the second-largest 12-step organization. As of May 2010 there were more than 61,800 NA meetings in 131 countries These are the original twelve steps as published by Alcoholics Anonymous: 1 We admitted we were powerless over alcohol—that our lives had become unmanageable. 2 Came to believe that a power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity. 3Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood Him. 4 Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves. 5Admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs. 6 Were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character. 7Humbly asked Him to remove our shortcomings. 8Made a list of all persons we had harmed, and became willing to make amends to them all. 9Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others. 10Continued to take personal inventory, and when we were wrong, promptly admitted it. 11Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God as we understood Him, praying only for knowledge of His will for us and the power to carry that out. 12Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to alcoholics, and to practice these principles in all our affairs. In some cases, where other twelve-step groups have adapted the AA steps as guiding principles, they have been altered to emphasize principles important to those particular fellowships, and to remove gender-biased language.