Narcotics Anonymous Message Board

Krista G · Krista G

Hello, I'm writing for perspective because I feel so isolated because of my husband's addiction. He has been an opiate addict for as long as I can remember. He began using when we first met and hid it for several years, only admitting it well into our marrage. His entire family are addicts, they we...

Dave R · Dave R

We reevaluate our old ideas so we can become acquainted with the new ideas that lead to a new way of life. Basic Text, p. 94 = Learning to live a new way of life can be difficult. Sometimes, when the going gets especially hard, were tempted to follow the path of least resistance and live by our old ideas a...

JFT17 · JFT17

Hi- I havent been on here in ironically about a year to post. I generally get on and read a lot of great recovery suggestions that I try to apply in my every day life. I will be picking up my 2 year coin on the 18th and though I have worked my ass off to get to where I am today I feel like I am struggling to practice t...

Dave R · Dave R

I have been moderating this board for a while now and would like to turn it over to someone else. If you would like to be the new moderator email mip@12stepforums.net Thanks

sanjay_2011 · sanjay_2011

Hey guys becoz of past active addiction there are over a dozen employers and 14 years of unemployment in Resume.Got a new job.I am from Accounts background and the new job (great pay) has got accounts plus stores plus admin.I am zero at admin and stores never handled.I am clean 18 months.Got aging and s...

Dave R · Dave R

When at the end of the road we find that we can no longer function as a human being, either with or without drugs, we all face the same dilemma.... Either go on as best we can to the bitter endsjails, institutions, or deathor find a new way to live. Basic Text, p. 87 = What was the worst aspect of active add...

Dave R · Dave R

Freedom to change seems to come after acceptance of ourselves. Basic Text, p. 58 = Fear and denial are the opposites of acceptance. None of us are perfect, even in our own eyes; all of us have certain traits that, given the chance, we would like to change. We sometimes become overwhelmed when contem...

Manon · Manon

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xqds0B_meys

Dave R · Dave R

In living the steps, we begin to let go of our self-obsession. Basic Text, p. 97 = Many of us came to the program convinced that our feelings, our wants, and our needs were of the utmost importance to everyone. We had practiced a lifetime of self-seeking, self-centered behavior and believed it was t...

Dave R · Dave R

Words mean nothing until we put them into action. Basic Text, p. 58 = The Twelfth Step reminds us to practice these principles in all our affairs. In NA, we see living examples of this suggestion all around us. The more experienced members, who seem to have an aura of peace surrounding them, demonst...

Dave R · Dave R

The fact that we, each and every group, focus on carrying the message provides consistency; addicts can count on us. Basic Text, p. 68 = Tales of our antics in active addiction may be funny. Stories of our old bizarre reactions to life when using may be interesting. But they tend to carry the mess mor...

Kashmiranda · Kashmiranda

I am a single mother who needs to move into an Oxford house as soon as possible. I have made a few calls but there are not very many options for mothers with children. I don't mind moving as far as Oregon but prefer to stay within a 50 mile radius of my current location. I am really serious about staying clean...

Dave R · Dave R

Everything that occurs in the course of NA service must be motivated by the desire to more successfully carry the message of recovery to the addict who still suffers. Basic Text, p. xxvi = Our motives are often a surprise to us. In our early days of recovery, they were almost always a surprise! Weve l...

momswings · momswings

I am new to NA I am formiliar with the 12 step program. I was in aa recovery 20 yrs ago but became a drinker of less to get buzzed. Now with my back injury and the stress I have in the house pain pills have beceom more convient and noone really knows the difference but me. There is no alcohol no one drinks but...

Dave R · Dave R

Complacency is the enemy of members with substantial clean time. If we remain complacent for long, the recovery process ceases. Basic Text, p. 84 = Recognizing complacency in our recovery is like seeing smoke in a room. The smoke thickens when our meeting attendance drops, contact with newcome...

Tahir · Tahir

Two of my friends from the Fellowship went on Interferon treatment this week and they are down with fever and stomach cramps. I was considering going for it myself and might go on it myself in a few months. Are there others here who have undergone this treatment for their hepatitis C? I would really appr...

Dave R · Dave R

There is a spiritual principle of giving away what we have been given in Narcotics Anonymous in order to keep it. By helping others to stay clean, we enjoy the benefit of the spiritual wealth that we have found. Basic Text, p. 49 = Time and again in our recovery, others have freely shared with us what w...

Dave R · Dave R

Addiction is a physical, mental, and spiritual disease that affects every area of our lives. Basic Text, p. 20 = Before we started using, most of us had a stereotype, a mental image of what addicts were supposed to look like. Some of us pictured a junkie robbing convenience markets for drug money. O...

mrsgray0618 · mrsgray0618

Hello everyone my name is Tamara and I have been a struggling addict for the last 4 years with sprouts of clean time. One very important thing ladies and gentlmen is NEVER EVER get to cocky in your soberity and think you are above and beyond it. I was the girl going to the classes swearing up and down I would...

Dave R · Dave R

There is only one requirement for membership, the desire to stop using. Basic Text, p. 9 = We all know people who could benefit from Narcotics Anonymous. Many people we encounter from all walks of lifeour family members, old friends, and coworkerscould really use a program of recovery in their li...

Mike T · Mike T

I am going to call World on this, but I just wanted some opinions on "facility rules." We recently had to move our homegroup to another facility due to this disease taking our landlord to the final of the three absolutes stopping active addiction. This facility wants us to read "faci...

Dave R · Dave R

By working the steps, we come to accept a Higher Powers will.... We lose our fear of the unknown. We are set free. Basic Text, p. 16 = Life is a series of changes, both large and small. Although we may know and accept this fact intellectually, chances are that our initial emotional reaction to change i...

momswings · momswings

Anyone in recovery that would like to chat on facebook please send me a friend request at Candice Fanning Gibson. I would love to talk to some newbies an some people with some real sobriety behind them. im on and off most the day and briefly at night. Thanks candi

sanjay_2011 · sanjay_2011

Hi, I am 18 months clean in NA and I am from India and I use to visit this site but today I registered.I am dying to get a sponsor and after reading here a lot I found Raman can help me.How do I contact Raman please help. Hius and love to ALL

LizC · LizC

I will try not to ramble too much since it is past 3am and I am not sleeping. Sorry Ive been gone for a while. I was running amuck causing chaos to myself and others. Using to the point of giving up, not caring, suicidal thoughts, and desperation. Im clean today. Ive been clean for almost a week. The lovely M...

William · William

I'm in Boston...where are the meetings?

William · William

I'm a forty year old man who needs a mentor to guide me through the process of getting away from opiates and into the NA system. I live in Arlington, near Davis Square in Somerville.

amanda819 · amanda819

Please help. I am on 3 days of having no percocet 30s. I am hurting so bad, I have no energy, I have a 2 1/2 year old son at home and I CANNOT get off my butt!!! Any suggestions would be very helpfull on how I CAN GET SOME ENERGY, and stop feeling as miserable as I do. I am trying so hard.

Dave R · Dave R

No one is forcing us to give up our misery. Basic Text, p. 29 = Its funny to remember how reluctant we once were to surrender to recovery. We seemed to think we had wonderful, fulfilling lives as using addicts and that giving up our drugs would be worse than serving a life sentence at hard labor. In real...

Dave R · Dave R

I started to imitate some of the things the winners were doing. I got caught up in NA. I felt good... Basic Text, p. 153 = We often hear it said in meetings that we should stick with the winners. Who are the winners in Narcotics Anonymous? Winners are easily identified. They work an active program of re...

Topic		Started By	Replies	Views	Last Post
	Spouse of an addict (Preview) Hello, I'm writing for perspective because I feel so isolated because of my husband's addiction. He has been an opiate addict for as long as I can remember. He began using when we first met and hid it for several years, only admitting it well into our marrage. His entire family are addicts, they we...	Krista G	3	374	Dec 24, 2012 by Dave R
	JFT DEcember 23 New ideas (Preview) We reevaluate our old ideas so we can become acquainted with the new ideas that lead to a new way of life. Basic Text, p. 94 = Learning to live a new way of life can be difficult. Sometimes, when the going gets especially hard, were tempted to follow the path of least resistance and live by our old ideas a...	Dave R	0	245	Dec 23, 2012 by Dave R
	Help with Relationships (Preview) Hi- I havent been on here in ironically about a year to post. I generally get on and read a lot of great recovery suggestions that I try to apply in my every day life. I will be picking up my 2 year coin on the 18th and though I have worked my ass off to get to where I am today I feel like I am struggling to practice t...	JFT17	5	494	Dec 23, 2012 by BigV
	New board moderator (Preview) I have been moderating this board for a while now and would like to turn it over to someone else. If you would like to be the new moderator email mip@12stepforums.net Thanks	Dave R	4	366	Dec 23, 2012 by BigV
	URGENT_Suggestion needed to get settle at new Job (Preview) Hey guys becoz of past active addiction there are over a dozen employers and 14 years of unemployment in Resume.Got a new job.I am from Accounts background and the new job (great pay) has got accounts plus stores plus admin.I am zero at admin and stores never handled.I am clean 18 months.Got aging and s...	sanjay_2011	3	326	Dec 23, 2012 by avid
	JFT December 22 A new way to live (Preview) When at the end of the road we find that we can no longer function as a human being, either with or without drugs, we all face the same dilemma.... Either go on as best we can to the bitter endsjails, institutions, or deathor find a new way to live. Basic Text, p. 87 = What was the worst aspect of active add...	Dave R	0	255	Dec 22, 2012 by Dave R
	JFT December 21 Acceptance and change (Preview) Freedom to change seems to come after acceptance of ourselves. Basic Text, p. 58 = Fear and denial are the opposites of acceptance. None of us are perfect, even in our own eyes; all of us have certain traits that, given the chance, we would like to change. We sometimes become overwhelmed when contem...	Dave R	0	285	Dec 21, 2012 by Dave R
	this is a perfet song to expipast three years and then some (Preview) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xqds0B_meys	Manon	1	312	Dec 21, 2012 by avid
	JFT December 20 Overcoming self-obsession (Preview) In living the steps, we begin to let go of our self-obsession. Basic Text, p. 97 = Many of us came to the program convinced that our feelings, our wants, and our needs were of the utmost importance to everyone. We had practiced a lifetime of self-seeking, self-centered behavior and believed it was t...	Dave R	0	246	Dec 20, 2012 by Dave R
	JFT December 19 Walking the way we talk (Preview) Words mean nothing until we put them into action. Basic Text, p. 58 = The Twelfth Step reminds us to practice these principles in all our affairs. In NA, we see living examples of this suggestion all around us. The more experienced members, who seem to have an aura of peace surrounding them, demonst...	Dave R	0	236	Dec 19, 2012 by Dave R
	JFT December 18 The message of our meetings (Preview) The fact that we, each and every group, focus on carrying the message provides consistency; addicts can count on us. Basic Text, p. 68 = Tales of our antics in active addiction may be funny. Stories of our old bizarre reactions to life when using may be interesting. But they tend to carry the mess mor...	Dave R	0	242	Dec 18, 2012 by Dave R
	Oxford House for W/C in Seattle Any Suggestions?? Oxford house clean and sober housing Island living (Preview) I am a single mother who needs to move into an Oxford house as soon as possible. I have made a few calls but there are not very many options for mothers with children. I don't mind moving as far as Oregon but prefer to stay within a 50 mile radius of my current location. I am really serious about staying clean...	Kashmiranda	1	351	Dec 18, 2012 by avid
	JFT DEcember 17 Service motives (Preview) Everything that occurs in the course of NA service must be motivated by the desire to more successfully carry the message of recovery to the addict who still suffers. Basic Text, p. xxvi = Our motives are often a surprise to us. In our early days of recovery, they were almost always* a surprise! Weve l...*	Dave R	0	243	Dec 17, 2012 by Dave R
	New to NA have past AA recovery help please (Preview) I am new to NA I am formiliar with the 12 step program. I was in aa recovery 20 yrs ago but became a drinker of less to get buzzed. Now with my back injury and the stress I have in the house pain pills have beceom more convient and noone really knows the difference but me. There is no alcohol no one drinks but...	momswings	18	999	Dec 17, 2012 by momswings
	JFT December 16 Where there's smoke (Preview) Complacency is the enemy of members with substantial clean time. If we remain complacent for long, the recovery process ceases. Basic Text, p. 84 = Recognizing complacency in our recovery is like seeing smoke in a room. The smoke thickens when our meeting attendance drops, contact with newcome...	Dave R	1	353	Dec 17, 2012 by yogiart
	Experiences with the Interferon Treatment (Preview) Two of my friends from the Fellowship went on Interferon treatment this week and they are down with fever and stomach cramps. I was considering going for it myself and might go on it myself in a few months. Are there others here who have undergone this treatment for their hepatitis C? I would really appr...	Tahir	11	1259	Dec 16, 2012 by banjopaul100
	JFT December 15 The joy of sharing (Preview) There is a spiritual principle of giving away what we have been given in Narcotics Anonymous in order to keep it. By helping others to stay clean, we enjoy the benefit of the spiritual wealth that we have found. Basic Text, p. 49 = Time and again in our recovery, others have freely shared with us what w...	Dave R	0	379	Dec 15, 2012 by Dave R
	JFT December 14 Addiction, drugs, and recovery (Preview) Addiction is a physical, mental, and spiritual disease that affects every area of our lives. Basic Text, p. 20 = Before we started using, most of us had a stereotype, a mental image of what addicts were supposed to look like. Some of us pictured a junkie robbing convenience markets for drug money. O...	Dave R	0	309	Dec 14, 2012 by Dave R
	WE ARE ALL THE SAME (Preview) Hello everyone my name is Tamara and I have been a struggling addict for the last 4 years with sprouts of clean time. One very important thing ladies and gentlmen is NEVER EVER get to cocky in your soberity and think you are above and beyond it. I was the girl going to the classes swearing up and down I would...	mrsgray0618	4	388	Dec 14, 2012 by avid
	JFT December 13 Membership (Preview) There is only one requirement for membership, the desire to stop using. Basic Text, p. 9 = We all know people who could benefit from Narcotics Anonymous. Many people we encounter from all walks of lifeour family members, old friends, and coworkerscould really use a program of recovery in their li...	Dave R	0	266	Dec 13, 2012 by Dave R
	Facility Rules (Preview) I am going to call World on this, but I just wanted some opinions on "facility rules." We recently had to move our homegroup to another facility due to this disease taking our landlord to the final of the three absolutes stopping active addiction. This facility wants us to read "faci...	Mike T	4	379	Dec 13, 2012 by Mike T
	JFT December 12 Fear of change (Preview) By working the steps, we come to accept a Higher Powers will.... We lose our fear of the unknown. We are set free. Basic Text, p. 16 = Life is a series of changes, both large and small. Although we may know and accept this fact intellectually, chances are that our initial emotional reaction to change i...	Dave R	0	272	Dec 12, 2012 by Dave R
	facebook (Preview) Anyone in recovery that would like to chat on facebook please send me a friend request at Candice Fanning Gibson. I would love to talk to some newbies an some people with some real sobriety behind them. im on and off most the day and briefly at night. Thanks candi	momswings	4	380	Dec 12, 2012 by momswings
	Looking for online sponsor (Preview) Hi, I am 18 months clean in NA and I am from India and I use to visit this site but today I registered.I am dying to get a sponsor and after reading here a lot I found Raman can help me.How do I contact Raman please help. Hius and love to ALL	sanjay_2011	7	332	Dec 12, 2012 by sanjay_2011
	Your mind is a powerful thing (Preview) I will try not to ramble too much since it is past 3am and I am not sleeping. Sorry Ive been gone for a while. I was running amuck causing chaos to myself and others. Using to the point of giving up, not caring, suicidal thoughts, and desperation. Im clean today. Ive been clean for almost a week. The lovely M...	LizC	3	337	Dec 12, 2012 by avid
	Are you on FaceBook...can we talk on there? Boston FaceBook (Preview) I'm in Boston...where are the meetings?	William	2	511	Dec 12, 2012 by avid
	In Arlington, would like to meet other men or women struggling with opiate abuse...need a mentor. Mentor one on one NA HELP (Preview) I'm a forty year old man who needs a mentor to guide me through the process of getting away from opiates and into the NA system. I live in Arlington, near Davis Square in Somerville.	William	3	5617	Dec 12, 2012 by avid
	Day 3 of no opiates detoxing cold turkey (Preview) Please help. I am on 3 days of having no percocet 30s. I am hurting so bad, I have no energy, I have a 2 1/2 year old son at home and I CANNOT get off my butt!!! Any suggestions would be very helpfull on how I CAN GET SOME ENERGY, and stop feeling as miserable as I do. I am trying so hard.	amanda819	23	9645	Dec 12, 2012 by theRightpath
	JFT December 11 Misery is optional (Preview) No one is forcing us to give up our misery. Basic Text, p. 29 = Its funny to remember how reluctant we once were to surrender to recovery. We seemed to think we had wonderful, fulfilling lives as using addicts and that giving up our drugs would be worse than serving a life sentence at hard labor. In real...	Dave R	0	263	Dec 11, 2012 by Dave R
	JFT December 10 Winners (Preview) I started to imitate some of the things the winners were doing. I got caught up in NA. I felt good... Basic Text, p. 153 = We often hear it said in meetings that we should stick with the winners. Who are the winners in Narcotics Anonymous? Winners are easily identified. They work an active program of re...	Dave R	0	279	Dec 10, 2012 by Dave R
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