Who Is an Addict?
Most of us do not have to think twice about this question. We know! Our whole life and thinking was centered in drugs in one form or another-the getting and using and finding ways and means to get more. We lived to use and used to live. Very simply, an addict is a man or woman whose life is controlled by drugs. We are people in the grip of a continuing and progressive illness whose ends are always the same: jails, institutions, and death.
Reprinted from the Little White Booklet. Narcotics Anonymous 1986 by Narcotics Anonymous World Services, Inc., PO Box 9999, Van Nuys, CA 91409
ISBN 0-912075-65-1 10/00
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2. What is the Narcotics Anonymous Program?
3. Why Are We Here?
4. How It Works
5. The Twelve Traditions of NA
6. CLARITY STATEMENT
7. We Do Recover
When at the end of the road we find that we can no longer function as a human being, either with or without drugs, we will face the same dilemma. What is there left to do? There seems to be this alternative: either go on as best we can to the bitter ends –jails, institutions or death–or find a new way to live. In years gone by, very few addicts ever had this last choice. Those who are addicted today are more fortunate. For the first time in entire history, a simple way has been proving itself in the lives of many addicts. It is available to us all. This is a simple spiritual–not religious--program, known as Narcotics Anonymous
Reprinted from the White Booklet, Narcotics Anonymous.
1986 by Narcotics Anonymous World Services, Inc., PO Box 9999, Van Nuys, CA 91409 ISBN 0-912075-55-1 6/04
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8. Just for Today