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drugfree · drugfree

Hey everyone Just thought I'd share that I made it another year clean.... total now 4 :) I never thought this was ever possible or that life could be so good. thanks to this program all my dreams are coming true and the new ones I create are in the process of actualizing.... Thank you everyone!! Andrea

JB · JB

Hello... I am new to this website, and have some questions. I have been taking pain pills for 5 years now... Started with vicodin, ending with 10mg oxycodones about 10-12 pills a day.. I was prescribed them for a legit reason and now it has just gotten out of controland to much to handle. Im taking wayyy m...

LizC · LizC

hmm the board is a little slow lately. welp everything is just dandy over here. IT SNOWED TODAY! the first snow of the year and its beautiful. i can't wait till we get 4 feet.

Dave R · Dave R

When we were using, our lives became an exercise in survival. Now we are doing much more living than surviving.Basic Text, p. 52=Id be better off dead! A familiar refrain to a practicing addict, and with good reason. All we had to look forward to was more of the same miserable existence. Our hold o...

Raman · Raman

I need to speak up for myself more fearlessly and share real feelings with people ! Especially those on the "outside" that have many "covers" going for them ! I realize that when Im not assertive and communicate on a feelings level, I begin to get abusive, derisive or silently re...

Raman · Raman

Can You Date In (early) Recovery Without Losing Yourself?Posted by AshleyD on November 10, 2011 · Leave a Comment In my first year of sobriety, it was suggested to me by my sponsor that I write out a list of the qualities that I looked for in a man. Ug! I did it, of course, and it was a little surprising...

HollyMarie · HollyMarie

I am new to this, my cell phone does not support the chat. I can't make it to NA meetings due to transportation and location. I need to be able to talk to somebody daily. I am in intensive outpatient, been inpatient once. I'm almost 24. I realize without meetings it is almost impossible for me to stay clean...

lyrikal · lyrikal

so in outpatient (not intensive) if you have to pay copay for your individual sessions, do you have to pay copay for group too? i have my first group session on monday. then i have another individual on wednesday. i kno all places are diff...

Dave R · Dave R

We are not going to be perfect. If we were perfect, we would not be human.Basic Text, p. 31=All of us had expectations about life in recovery. Some of us thought recovery would suddenly make us employable or able to do anything in the world we wanted to do. Or maybe we imagined perfect ease in our int...

Dave R · Dave R

When we honestly tell our own story, someone else may identify with us.Basic Text, p. 98=Many of us have heard truly captivating speakers at Narcotics Anonymous conventions. We remember the audience alternating between tears of identification and joyous hilarity. Someday, we may think, Im...

MIKEF · MIKEF

mornin and blessings of this day,welcome to all newcomers and those just coming around.Been real busy with band,baby,hunting and life in general.Just got our TV web and wi/fi conections back up from freak october storm.. So I say ,Stay blessed and Just For Today,be all God(of your choosing) intend...

nita · nita

im two days out of a detox program and not feeling great at this point i havent taken a vicodin in 7days and im pretty emotoinal and still exsperinencing some pain and sleeplessness i know i never want to take a vicodin agin in my hole entire life that much i do know for sure this detox aint no joke im up im do...

Raman · Raman

Forget about when I was using, I did lose a lot. Lots of opportunities, lots of love and lots of money. I can accept that quite easily, and dosent usually come back to haunt me. But the things negative that happened in my recovery, they arise each day to haunt me, taunt me, make me feel un-worthy, wasted e...

Brooke09 · Brooke09

Hi, my name is Brooke. I'm new to this site and was actually looking around for a place to get some help outside my local fellowship. I'm just looking for advice or someone to share their story with me. The area where I attend meetings is not a very big community/county so in turn the fellowship is not very...

Dave R · Dave R

We surrender quietly and let the God of our understanding take care of us.Basic Text, p. 26=Surrender and acceptance are like infatuation and love. Infatuation begins when we encounter someone special. Infatuation requires nothing but the acknowledgement of the object of our infatuation....

Dave R · Dave R

No matter how far we ran, we always carried fear with us.Basic Text, p. 14=For many of us, fear was a constant factor in our lives before we came to Narcotics Anonymous. We used because we were afraid to feel emotional or physical pain. Our fear of people and situations gave us a convenient excuse t...

towey · towey

Good morning all! Just wanted to share with all what god has done in my life! I have had 3 DUI's and got caught driving on a revoked, i hit a cop car in my own neighborhood and left the scene! I have been to AA, NA, rehab, tons of meetings had a sponsor and I still could not stop the pills, I had not had a...

Dave R · Dave R

It is our actions that are important. We leave the results to our Higher Power.Basic Text, p. 91=Theres an old saying we sometimes hear in our meetings: If you want to make God laugh, make plans. When we hear this we usually laugh, too, but theres a nervous edge to our laughter. We wonder if all of o...

Dave R · Dave R

Do I believe it would be insane to walk up to someone and say, May I please have a heart attack or a fatal accident?Basic Text, p. 24=Weve heard it said that unless were in love, we cant remember what love feels like. The same could be said of insanity: Once were freed of it, we may forget how truly bizar...

Dave R · Dave R

November 7Feeling Gods willI sincerely believed that a Higher Power could restore my sanity and that I would stop trying to figure out what Gods will was, just accept things for what they were, and be grateful.=The longer we stay clean, the less surely we know what our Higher Powers will for us isand th...

nomore8888 · nomore8888

i need help. i cant do this on my own. i am powerless and helpless. i have a half bottle of whiskey at my bedside and trying to hold off the klonipin. 24 hrs and anxiety is building. i found a meeting place and pray i will get the courage to go. i have lost everything but my life and i am clinging to it by a shoe str...

Raman · Raman

Dear God, show me what I did right and wrong today, show me how I can better live and serve Thy will tommorow. (Follow with 3rd Step Prayer NA) Take my will and my life, Guide me in my recovery, show me how to live !

Dave R · Dave R

Humility is a result of getting honest with ourselves.Basic Text, p. 36=Humility was an idea so foreign to most of us that we ignored it as long as we could. When we first saw the word humbly ahead in Step Seven, we may have figured it meant we had quite a bit of humiliation in store. Perhaps we chose to...

Raman · Raman

My Creator, Im now wiiling, that you have all of me, Both the "good" and the "bad". Remove from me, every single defect of character, that stands in the way, of my usefulness to you and to my fellowmen. Grant me the strength, to do your bidding, as I go out from here ! (Amen)..........

Dave R · Dave R

November 5Gods guidanceOur Higher Power is accessible to us at all times. We receive guidance when we ask for knowledge of Gods will for us.Basic Text, p. 95=Its not always easy to make the right decision. This is especially true for addicts learning to live by spiritual principles for the first ti...

Dave R · Dave R

...we give love because it was given so freely to us. New frontiers are open to us as we learn how to love. Love can be the flow of life energy from one person to another.Basic Text, p. 105 =Love given, and love received, is the essence of life itself. It is the universal common denominator, connecti...

Raman · Raman

Sometimes I have an experience that I dont understand;like the recurring anger with my mother. Today was another instance of meaningless anger with her. There I am enjoying a holiday with my daughter and then we decide to watch TV with ma. Maybe the serial we were watching brought up anger, or maybe it...

Manon · Manon

just a quick update... things are going well despite the manic episode still dating the same person I am not only learning bout him I am learning to love myself its been refreshing and healthy go fiure who would,ve thought its good I am happy and still clean amazing I have been shown more bout who i really...

Dave R · Dave R

We eventually have to stand on our own feet and face life on its own terms, so why not from the start?Basic Text, p. 88=Some of us feel that we should protect newcomers by telling them that, while everything used to be horrible, now that were in recovery its all wonderful. We feel that we might scare so...

Poofy · Poofy

A shot to stop measles, the flu, Chicken Pox, HPV, Hepatitis B, Tetanusand drug addiction? Twenty-five years of intensive research and over 200 million dollars in clinical studies later, Dr. Kim Janda is slightly closer to having a vaccine to curb drug addiction.Although its uncertain if or when a...

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	made it another year :) (Preview) Hey everyone Just thought I'd share that I made it another year clean.... total now 4 :) I never thought this was ever possible or that life could be so good. thanks to this program all my dreams are coming true and the new ones I create are in the process of actualizing.... Thank you everyone!! Andrea	drugfree	8	240	Nov 14, 2011 by MIKEF
	PLEASE HELP.. GOING TO START GETTING CLEAN (Preview) Hello... I am new to this website, and have some questions. I have been taking pain pills for 5 years now... Started with vicodin, ending with 10mg oxycodones about 10-12 pills a day.. I was prescribed them for a legit reason and now it has just gotten out of controland to much to handle. Im taking wayyy m...	JB	7	516	Nov 14, 2011 by towey
	helloooooo (Preview) hmm the board is a little slow lately. welp everything is just dandy over here. IT SNOWED TODAY! the first snow of the year and its beautiful. i can't wait till we get 4 feet.	LizC	3	290	Nov 14, 2011 by MIKEF
	JFT November 14 Not just surviving (Preview) When we were using, our lives became an exercise in survival. Now we are doing much more living than surviving.Basic Text, p. 52=Id be better off dead! A familiar refrain to a practicing addict, and with good reason. All we had to look forward to was more of the same miserable existence. Our hold o...	Dave R	0	237	Nov 14, 2011 by Dave R
	I need to blow my horn more,,, (Preview) I need to speak up for myself more fearlessly and share real feelings with people ! Especially those on the "outside" that have many "covers" going for them ! I realize that when Im not assertive and communicate on a feelings level, I begin to get abusive, derisive or silently re...	Raman	0	211	Nov 14, 2011 by Raman
	Had to share this share by a FB friend ! (Preview) Can You Date In (early) Recovery Without Losing Yourself?Posted by AshleyD on November 10, 2011 · Leave a Comment In my first year of sobriety, it was suggested to me by my sponsor that I write out a list of the qualities that I looked for in a man. Ug! I did it, of course, and it was a little surprising...	Raman	4	372	Nov 14, 2011 by Raman
	new and limited (Preview) I am new to this, my cell phone does not support the chat. I can't make it to NA meetings due to transportation and location. I need to be able to talk to somebody daily. I am in intensive outpatient, been inpatient once. I'm almost 24. I realize without meetings it is almost impossible for me to stay clean...	HollyMarie	10	306	Nov 13, 2011 by HollyMarie
	general question about outpatient (Preview) so in outpatient (not intensive) if you have to pay copay for your individual sessions, do you have to pay copay for group too? i have my first group session on monday. then i have another individual on wednesday. i kno all places are diff...	lyrikal	1	262	Nov 13, 2011 by avid
	JFT November 13 Not perfect (Preview) We are not going to be perfect. If we were perfect, we would not be human.Basic Text, p. 31=All of us had expectations about life in recovery. Some of us thought recovery would suddenly make us employable or able to do anything in the world we wanted to do. Or maybe we imagined perfect ease in our int...	Dave R	0	217	Nov 13, 2011 by Dave R
	JFT November 12 Our own story (Preview) When we honestly tell our own story, someone else may identify with us.Basic Text, p. 98=Many of us have heard truly captivating speakers at Narcotics Anonymous conventions. We remember the audience alternating between tears of identification and joyous hilarity. Someday, we may think, Im...	Dave R	0	246	Nov 12, 2011 by Dave R
	STILL HERE,JUST LAID BACK! (Preview) mornin and blessings of this day,welcome to all newcomers and those just coming around.Been real busy with band,baby,hunting and life in general.Just got our TV web and wi/fi conections back up from freak october storm.. So I say ,Stay blessed and Just For Today,be all God(of your choosing) intend...	MIKEF	2	252	Nov 12, 2011 by Raman
	new to this (Preview) im two days out of a detox program and not feeling great at this point i havent taken a vicodin in 7days and im pretty emotoinal and still exsperinencing some pain and sleeplessness i know i never want to take a vicodin agin in my hole entire life that much i do know for sure this detox aint no joke im up im do...	nita	8	318	Nov 12, 2011 by Rrib
	oh, the things I've lost in life ! (Preview) Forget about when I was using, I did lose a lot. Lots of opportunities, lots of love and lots of money. I can accept that quite easily, and dosent usually come back to haunt me. But the things negative that happened in my recovery, they arise each day to haunt me, taunt me, make me feel un-worthy, wasted e...	Raman	7	389	Nov 11, 2011 by Raman
	Local Fellowship Size (Preview) Hi, my name is Brooke. I'm new to this site and was actually looking around for a place to get some help outside my local fellowship. I'm just looking for advice or someone to share their story with me. The area where I attend meetings is not a very big community/county so in turn the fellowship is not very...	Brooke09	11	624	Nov 11, 2011 by avid
	JFT November 11 From surrender to acceptance (Preview) We surrender quietly and let the God of our understanding take care of us.Basic Text, p. 26=Surrender and acceptance are like infatuation and love. Infatuation begins when we encounter someone special. Infatuation requires nothing but the acknowledgement of the object of our infatuation....	Dave R	0	283	Nov 11, 2011 by Dave R
	JFT November 10 Fear or faith? (Preview) No matter how far we ran, we always carried fear with us.Basic Text, p. 14=For many of us, fear was a constant factor in our lives before we came to Narcotics Anonymous. We used because we were afraid to feel emotional or physical pain. Our fear of people and situations gave us a convenient excuse t...	Dave R	0	246	Nov 10, 2011 by Dave R
	Hello everyone, I got a job after 7 yrs! wanted to share (Preview) Good morning all! Just wanted to share with all what god has done in my life! I have had 3 DUI's and got caught driving on a revoked, i hit a cop car in my own neighborhood and left the scene! I have been to AA, NA, rehab, tons of meetings had a sponsor and I still could not stop the pills, I had not had a...	towey	6	301	Nov 9, 2011 by towey
	JFt November 9 The best-laid plans (Preview) It is our actions that are important. We leave the results to our Higher Power.Basic Text, p. 91=Theres an old saying we sometimes hear in our meetings: If you want to make God laugh, make plans. When we hear this we usually laugh, too, but theres a nervous edge to our laughter. We wonder if all of o...	Dave R	1	229	Nov 9, 2011 by Mike M
	JFT November 8 Freed from insanity (Preview) Do I believe it would be insane to walk up to someone and say, May I please have a heart attack or a fatal accident?Basic Text, p. 24=Weve heard it said that unless were in love, we cant remember what love feels like. The same could be said of insanity: Once were freed of it, we may forget how truly bizar...	Dave R	0	220	Nov 8, 2011 by Dave R
	JFT November 7 Feelings God's will (Preview) November 7Feeling Gods willI sincerely believed that a Higher Power could restore my sanity and that I would stop trying to figure out what Gods will was, just accept things for what they were, and be grateful.=The longer we stay clean, the less surely we know what our Higher Powers will for us isand th...	Dave R	0	282	Nov 7, 2011 by Dave R
	how can i do this (Preview) i need help. i cant do this on my own. i am powerless and helpless. i have a half bottle of whiskey at my bedside and trying to hold off the klonipin. 24 hrs and anxiety is building. i found a meeting place and pray i will get the courage to go. i have lost everything but my life and i am clinging to it by a shoe str...	nomore8888	2	350	Nov 7, 2011 by BigV
	10th Step Prayer (NA) (Preview) Dear God, show me what I did right and wrong today, show me how I can better live and serve Thy will tommorow. (Follow with 3rd Step Prayer NA) Take my will and my life, Guide me in my recovery, show me how to live !	Raman	2	2981	Nov 6, 2011 by Raman
	JFT November 6 Understanding humility (Preview) Humility is a result of getting honest with ourselves.Basic Text, p. 36=Humility was an idea so foreign to most of us that we ignored it as long as we could. When we first saw the word humbly ahead in Step Seven, we may have figured it meant we had quite a bit of humiliation in store. Perhaps we chose to...	Dave R	0	315	Nov 6, 2011 by Dave R
	7th Step Prayer (from another significant Fellowship) (Preview) My Creator, Im now wiiling, that you have all of me, Both the "good" and the "bad". Remove from me, every single defect of character, that stands in the way, of my usefulness to you and to my fellowmen. Grant me the strength, to do your bidding, as I go out from here ! (Amen)..........	Raman	0	376	Nov 5, 2011 by Raman
	JFT November 5 God's guidance (Preview) November 5Gods guidanceOur Higher Power is accessible to us at all times. We receive guidance when we ask for knowledge of Gods will for us.Basic Text, p. 95=Its not always easy to make the right decision. This is especially true for addicts learning to live by spiritual principles for the first ti...	Dave R	0	267	Nov 5, 2011 by Dave R
	JFT November 4 Exchanging love (Preview) ...we give love because it was given so freely to us. New frontiers are open to us as we learn how to love. Love can be the flow of life energy from one person to another.Basic Text, p. 105 =Love given, and love received, is the essence of life itself. It is the universal common denominator, connecti...	Dave R	0	281	Nov 4, 2011 by Dave R
	Experiences I Don’t Understand; Hidden Gems anywhere in it ? (Preview) Sometimes I have an experience that I dont understand;like the recurring anger with my mother. Today was another instance of meaningless anger with her. There I am enjoying a holiday with my daughter and then we decide to watch TV with ma. Maybe the serial we were watching brought up anger, or maybe it...	Raman	18	479	Nov 3, 2011 by Raman
	happy holloween (Preview) just a quick update... things are going well despite the manic episode still dating the same person I am not only learning bout him I am learning to love myself its been refreshing and healthy go fiure who would,ve thought its good I am happy and still clean amazing I have been shown more bout who i really...	Manon	6	281	Nov 3, 2011 by cdbuckberry
	JFT November 3 No matter what (Preview) We eventually have to stand on our own feet and face life on its own terms, so why not from the start?Basic Text, p. 88=Some of us feel that we should protect newcomers by telling them that, while everything used to be horrible, now that were in recovery its all wonderful. We feel that we might scare so...	Dave R	1	414	Nov 3, 2011 by Mike M
	Scientist Closer to Creating Addiction Vaccine (Preview) A shot to stop measles, the flu, Chicken Pox, HPV, Hepatitis B, Tetanusand drug addiction? Twenty-five years of intensive research and over 200 million dollars in clinical studies later, Dr. Kim Janda is slightly closer to having a vaccine to curb drug addiction.Although its uncertain if or when a...	Poofy	6	325	Nov 2, 2011 by MIKEF
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