NARCOTICS ANONYMOUS

NARCOTICS ANONYMOUS

Fifth Edition

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CONTENTS

Our Symbol

ix

Preface

x

Introduction

xiii

BOOK ONE: NARCOTICS ANONYMOUS

Chapter One

Who Is an Addict?

3

Chapter Two

What Is the

Narcotics Anonymous Program?

8

Chapter Three

Why Are We Here?

11

Chapter Four

How It Works

14

Chapter Five

What Can I Do?

43

Chapter Six

The Twelve Traditions of

Narcotics Anonymous

48

Chapter Seven

Recovery and Relapse

62

Chapter Eight

We Do Recover

70

Chapter Nine

Just for Today--Living the Program

74

Chapter Ten

More Will Be Revealed

80

BOOK TWO: PERSONAL STORIES

A Gift Called Life

87

If I Can Do It, So Can You

91

An Indian Without a Tribe

96

In Search of a Friend

99

I Was Unique

102

I Found a Home

105

If You Want What We Have

108

I Qualify

113

Why Me? Why Not Me?

116

Jails, Institutions, and Recovery

120

Fearful Mother

123

I Found the Only

N.A. Meeting in the World

127

Alien

132

A Little Girl Grows Up

137

It's Okay To Be Clean

144

Nowhere To Turn

147

Recovery Is My Responsibility

153

Unmanageable

156

How Do You Spell Relief?

159

Physician Addict

161

Part of the Solution

166

Resentment at the World

170

Mid-Pacific Serenity

172

The Vicious Cycle

177

I Was Different

179

Pothead!

182

I Can't Do Any More Time

185

Fat Addict

188

Early Services

190

I Felt Hopeless

192

I Kept Coming Back

195

It Won't Get Any Worse

200

My Gratitude speaks

205

No Excuse for Loneliness

209

Relapse and Return

217

Sick and Tired at Eighteen

220

The War Is Over

223

Up from Down Under

225

Index

230

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