Hospitals & Institutions Handbook - NA

Hospitals & Institutions ? Handbook

Twelve Steps of Narcotics Anonymous

1. We admitted that we were powerless over our addiction, that our lives had become unmanageable.

2. We came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.

3. We made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood Him.

4. We made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves. 5. We admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human being

the exact nature of our wrongs. 6. We were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects

of character. 7. We humbly asked Him to remove our shortcomings. 8. We made a list of all persons we had harmed, and became

willing to make amends to them all. 9. We made direct amends to such people wherever possible,

except when to do so would injure them or others. 10. We continued to take personal inventory and when we were

wrong promptly admitted it. 11. We sought 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. 12. Having had a spiritual awakening as a result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to addicts, and to practice these principles in all our affairs.

Twelve Steps reprinted for adaptation by permission of AA World Services, Inc.

Hospitals & Institutions Handbook

Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions rreprinted for adaptation by permission of

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Contents

GENERAL INFORMATION

INTRODUCTION ............................................................................................ 1 WHY IS AN H&I MEETING/PRESENTATION NEEDED? .............................. 1 WHAT CONSTITUTES AN H&I MEETING/PRESENTATION? ...................... 1 WHERE AND HOW TO START AN H&I MEETING/PRESENTATION ......... 2 H&I/PI COOPERATION ................................................................................. 2 WHO IS BEST SUITED TO CARRY THE NARCOTICS ANONYMOUS MESSAGE IN AN H&I MEETING? .................................................................. 5 THINGS TO CONSIDER ................................................................................. 5

ADOLESCENTS .......................................................................................... 5 ADDITIONAL NEEDS FOR ADDICTS IN HOSPITALS & INSTITUTIONS.............................................................. 6 WORKING WITH OTHERS: MEN WITH MEN, WOMEN WITH WOMEN ............................................ 7 SERVICES OTHER THAN MEETINGS ........................................................... 8 BUDGETING AND LITERATURE DISTRIBUTION ........................................ 9 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS ABOUT H&I ................................................ 10

TREATMENT H&I IN TREATMENT FACILITIES ................................................................ 15 INTRODUCTION .......................................................................................... 15 PURPOSE ..................................................................................................... 15 OUR RELATIONSHIPS WITH FACILITIES .................................................. 16 HOW TO START AN H&I MEETING/PRESENTATION .................................................................. 17 MEETING/PRESENTATION FORMATS ....................................................... 18 SPECIFIC FORMATS ................................................................................ 19 FOLLOW-UP ................................................................................................ 24 TYPES OF TREATMENT FACILITIES ........................................................... 25 SHORT-TERM FACILITIES ........................................................................... 25 LONG-TERM FACILITIES ............................................................................. 26 INTERACTION WITH THE STAFF ............................................................... 27 DO's AND DON'Ts ....................................................................................... 28

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