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Wives of Narcotic Abusers
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Hello. Is there anyone out there who has a spouse addicted to narcotics? How are you coping? My husband has been addicted to Vicodin on and off for the past two years. He also sometimes takes an excessive amount of zanax which makes him angry and violent.
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JFT June 24 Tolerance
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...ever reminding us to place principles before personalities. Tradition Twelve = Sometimes its hard to accept others character defects. As we recover together, we not only listen to others talk in meetings, we also watch how they walk through their recovery. The more we get to know other member...
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JFT June 25 Not just lucky
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The process of coming to believe restores us to sanity. The strength to move into action comes from this belief. Basic Text, p. 25 = Coming to believe is a process that stems from personal experience. Each of us has this experience; all addicts who find recovery in NA have solid evidence of a benevole...
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WWW.NAWOL.ORG
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I feel like I just found a new miracle.I'm sure for many it's not a new FYI,but to me,I just found another miracle.I'm newly clean as of March 24,so NA is a new program to me.I found a post Dalin put up showing the narcotics anon way of life website,and I went on,and I felt like it was this wealth of informati...
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JFT June 23 Surrender
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We didnt stumble into this fellowship brimming with love, honesty, open-mindedness, or willingness.... When we were beaten, we became willing. Basic Text, p. 20 = Surrender may be the necessary foundation for recovery, but sometimes we fight it. Most of us look back after some clean time and won...
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what to do
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hi everyone...im not a user....although ive had my time in the past I haven't gotten into the hard drugs that make this hell possible...what I am asking for is some advice on how to approach things with my gf/exgf. she is a heroin addict and bipolar as well..dating for about 3 years on and off through th...
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JFT June 21 New levels of honesty
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We have been experts at self-deception and rationalization. Basic Text, p. 28 = When we come to our first meeting and hear that we must be honest, we may think, Well now, that shouldnt be too difficult. All I have to do is stop lying. To some of us, this comes easily. We no longer have to lie to our employe...
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JFT June 22 Accepting life as it is
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In our recovery, we find it essential to accept reality. Once we can do this, we do not find it necessary to use drugs in an attempt to change our perceptions. Basic Text, p. 90 = Drugs used to buffer us from the full force of life. When we stop using drugs and enter recovery, we find ourselves confronte...
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JFT June 20 Meditation for beginners
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For some, prayer is asking for Gods help; meditation is listening for Gods answer.... Quieting the mind through meditation brings an inner peace that brings us into contact with the God within us. Basic Text, pp. 46-47 = Be patient when youre learning to meditate, many of us were told. It takes prac...
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help? Im am my home groups key tag person and I dont know what to say
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I am my groups key tag person now and I dont know what to say can someone please help cause I have looked all over the internet and cant find it anywhere?
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advice
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my husband abuse drugs not sure what i need to do. he burn up every penny he had open a account and he spend that money up fast as he got it.. im glad we dont have a joint account at all he get. see next month is our anniversary but i dont think it will be one. cause he has use that money up for us to go on a trip. can s...
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June 18 Indirect amends
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Indirect amends may be necessary where direct ones would be unsafe or endanger other people. Basic Text, p. 41 = When we used, we allowed nothing to stand in the way of that next high. As a result, many of us didnt always know precisely whom we had injured, either financially or emotionally. When it ca...
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JFT June 19 A sense of humor
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We find that when we lose self-obsession, we are able to understand what it means to be happy, joyous, and free. Basic Text, p. 107 = The laughter in our meetings often surprises the newcomer. As a group, we appreciate the healing that healthy laughter brings. Even if we are deeply troubled, the joy t...
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JFT June 17 Walls
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Reaching out is the beginning of the struggle that will set us free. It will break down the walls that imprison us. Basic Text, p. 83 = Many of us came to NA emotionally shattered. Years of using people and allowing them to use us had taken their toll on our ability to trust anyone, ourselves included....
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JFT June 16 Accepting life
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Some things we must accept, others we can change. The wisdom to know the difference comes with growth in our spiritual program. Basic Text, p. 95 = Its relatively easy to accept the things we likeits the things we dont like that are hard to accept. But remaking the world and everyone in it to suit our t...
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Advise please
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I am a parent to a 27 yr. old opiate addict. He decided a month ago he wanted to get his life back and get clean. He has gone to a substances abuse doctor and got on a program of decreasing amounts of suboxone, then going through a 10 day detox, and finally taking vivitrol shots for 6 to 12 months. Along wit...
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struggling
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I wrote something long and venting but it got deleted and I'm just too tired to write it again. Summary I'm struggling today. I want to use. I'm not worth fighting for. My fiancé talks to me like a piece of shit because I work too much and he gets to say on his ass everyday and get disability and social secur...
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JFT June 15 Resistance to change
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Many of us cling to our fears, doubts, self-loathing, or hatred because there is a certain distorted security in familiar pain. It seems safer to embrace what we know than to let go of it for the unknown. Basic Text, p. 34 = We have often heard it said that when the pain of remaining the same becomes grea...
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JFT June 14 Maintaining our faith
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If we maintain our spiritual condition daily, we find it easier to deal with the pain and confusion. Basic Text, p. 95 = When we first began searching for a Power greater than ourselves, many of us got stuck in old beliefs or ideas. These ranged from the fear of a punishing or vengeful God to no belief at...
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JFT June 13 A full life
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The program works a miracle in our lives.... We become free to live. Basic Text, p. 11 = Most of usif weve been in recovery for any length of time at allhave heard some member complaining in a meeting about being terribly overworked, too busy for meetings or sponsorship or other activities. In fact, w...
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JFT June 12 A vision of hope
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Yes, we are a vision of hope... Basic Text, p. 53 = By the time we reached the end of our road, many of us had lost all hope for a life without the use of drugs. We believed we were destined to die from our disease. What an inspiration it was, then, coming to our first meeting and seeing a room full of addicts w...
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Relaspe, doesnt mean its over.
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I changed my clean date. My lust took over and I was led away by my desires. I am on my way to a meeting but I feel like I was shot. I know that things will get better but I am in so much pain that it sometimes hard to express what I am feeling. I listen to what others are saying, I just show up, I dont use and tell some...
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JFT June 11 Living clean
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As we recover, we gain a new outlook on being clean.... Life can become a new adventure for us. Basic Text, p. 91 = The using life is not a clean oneno one knows this better than we do. Some of us lived in physical squalor, caring neither for our surroundings nor ourselves. Worse, though, than any exter...
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JFT June 10 Changing motives
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When we finally get our own selfish motives out of the way, we begin to find a peace that we never imagined possible. Basic Text, p. 45 = As we examine our beliefs, our actions, and our motives in recovery, well find that sometimes we do things for the wrong reasons. In our early recovery, we may have spe...
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Archives
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Anyone wishing to share and exchange archives and workbooks and awesome stuff bout NA....we can. I have much of Greg Pierce's stuff also have lots of stuff from Jim M and here is a site maintained by Chris B n Boyd P from NC: narchive.magshare.net click on the lil folder at the top left corner and watch wh...
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JFT June 9 Old dreams needn't die
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Lost dreams awaken and new possibilities arise. Basic Text, p. 91 = Most of us had dreams when we were young. Whether we dreamed of a dynamic career, a large and loving family, or travels abroad, our dreams died when our addiction took hold. Anything we ever wanted for ourselves was cast away in our pu...
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JFT June 8 The only requirement
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This program offers hope. All you have to bring with you is the desire to stop using and the willingness to try this new way of life. IP No. 16, For the Newcomer = From time to time we wonder if were doing it right in Narcotics Anonymous. Are we attending enough meetings? Are we using our sponsor, or work...
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JFT June 7 Someone who believes in me
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Just for today, I will have faith in someone in NA who believes in me and wants to help me in my recovery. Basic Text, p. 100 = Not all of us arrive in NA and automatically stay clean. But if we keep coming back, we find in Narcotics Anonymous the support we need for our recovery. Staying clean is easier whe...
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JFT June 6 Recovery doesn't happen overnight
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The Twelve Steps of Narcotics Anonymous are a progressive recovery process established in our daily living. Basic Text, p. 99 = After some time in recovery, we may find we are faced with what seem like overwhelming personal problems, angry feelings, and despair. When we realize whats going on, we...
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JFT June 3 Direct and indirect amends
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We make our amends to the best of our ability. Basic Text, p. 40 = The Ninth Step tells us to make direct amends wherever possible. Our experience tells us to follow up those direct amends with long-lasting changes in our attitudes and our behaviorthat is, with indirect amends. For example, say we'v...
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