Welcome to the Official Website of the Narcotics Anonymous Fellowship.
Nothing can replace a live communication and therefore, in order to quickly understand who we are and how we can help you – we invite you to attend one of the NA fellowship meetings today.
Narcotics Anonymous are an international fellowship of recovering addicts who help each other stop using drugs and learn to live without them. Originated in 1953, the NA movement is now one of the oldest and largest among such fellowships in the world. It holds more than 63,000 meetings per week in 65 languages in 137 countries. The NA fellowship exists in Russia since 1990 and conducts about 2,190 meetings a week in 270 cities of the country.
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.
Why Are We Here?
Before coming to the Fellowship of NA, we could not manage our own lives. We could not live and enjoy life as other people do. We had to have something different and we thought we had found it in drugs. We placed their use ahead of the welfare of our families, our wives, husbands, and our children. We had to have drugs at all costs. We did many people great harm but most of all we harmed ourselves. Through our inability to accept personal responsibilities we were actually creating our own problems. We seemed to be incapable of facing life on its own terms.
Most of us realized that in our addiction we were slowly committing suicide, but addiction is such a cunning enemy of life that we had lost the power to do anything about it. Many of us ended up in jail or sought help through medicine, religion, and psychiatry. None of these methods was sufficient for us. Our disease always resurfaced or continued to progress until in desperation we sought help from each other in Narcotics Anonymous.
After coming to NA, we realized we were sick people. We suffered from a disease from which there is no known cure. It can, however, be arrested at some point and recovery is then possible.
Who Can Attend NA Meetings?
Any person with a desire to stop using drugs can come to our meetings. A desire to stop using is the only requirement. Any addicted has the opportunity to become a member of the NA, regardless of what drugs were used (including alcohol), regardless of race, religious beliefs, sex, sexual preferences or financial position.
What is Happening at the NA Meetings?
An NA meeting occurs when two or more addicts get together to recover from addiction. Members of the NA provide each other with support by sharing their experience on how they cope with life situations without drugs. At some meetings the NA members tell how they became clean and how they stay clean.