Bangalore
Narcotics Anonymous,
NA’s earliest self-titled pamphlet, known among members as the White Booklet, describes Narcotics Anonymous this way:
NA is a nonprofit fellowship or society of men and women for whom drugs had become a major problem.
We meet regularly to help each other stay clean. We are not interested in what or how much you used but only in what you want to do about your problem and how we can help.
There is no social, religious, economic, racial, ethnic, national, gender, or class-status membership restrictions.
There are no dues or fees for membership; while most members regularly contribute small sums to help cover the expenses of meetings, such contributions are not mandatory.
Narcotics Anonymous provides a recovery process and support network inextricably linked together. One of the keys to NA’s success is the therapeutic value of addicts working with other addicts.
Members share their successes and challenges in overcoming active addiction and living drug-free productive lives through the application of the principles contained within the Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions of NA.
These principles are the core of the Narcotics Anonymous recovery program. Principles incorporated within the steps include:
admitting there is a problem;
seeking help;
engaging in a thorough self-examination;
confidential self-disclosure;
making amends for harm done; and
helping other drug addicts who want to recover.
PO BOX 590, Frazer Town Post Office, Bangalore – 560005.