Narcotics mettings | Address | Schedule |
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11 Halsey Street | 11 Halsey Street, Newark, NJ 07102-3103 | |
Sunday, 7:00 PM | ||
12 and 12 For Life Group | 700 Cooper Road, Voorhees, New Jersey, 08043 | |
Wednesday, 08:30 PM - 09:30 PM | ||
12 Step Workshop Group | 40 South Fullerton Avenue, Montclair, New Jersey, 07042 | |
Sunday, 08:00 PM - 09:00 PM | ||
12 Steps to Freedom Group | 17 Oak Avenue Route 27, Metuchen, New Jersey, 8840 | |
Wednesday, 12:15 PM - 01:15 PM | ||
127 West Kinney Street | 127 West Kinney Street, Newark, NJ 07103-4101 | |
Tuesday, 12:30 PM | ||
208 Commerce Place | 208 Commerce Place, Elizabeth, New Jersey, 07201-2325 | |
Saturday, 12:00 PM | ||
300 Broadway | 300 Broadway, Newark, NJ 07104-4003 | |
Sunday, 6:00 PM | ||
330 Washington Street | 330 Washington Street, Newark, NJ 07102-2630 | |
Friday, 8:00 PM | ||
Sunday, 12:00 PM | ||
61 Lincoln Park | 61 Lincoln Park, Newark, New Jersey, 07102-2390 | |
Saturday, 7:00 PM | ||
620 West State Street | 620 West State Street, Trenton, NJ 08618 | |
Thursday, 5:00 PM |
What is Narcotics Anonymous?
Narcotics Anonymous (NA) is a nonprofit fellowship or society of men and women for whom drugs have become a major problem. Members meet regularly to help each other stay clean. This program, which is adapted from Alcoholics Anonymous, is available for drug addicts across the United States and globally.
NA Meeting in Newark
Address: 123 Main St, Newark, NJ 07101
- Meeting Times: Mondays at 7:30 PM
- Open discussion meeting using NA approved literature
NA Meeting in Jersey City
Address: 456 Park Ave, Jersey City, NJ 07302
- Meeting Times: Tuesdays at 6:00 PM, Thursdays at 5:30 PM
- Closed meetings for addicts only, using a 12-step study format
NA Meeting in Trenton
Address: 789 State St, Trenton, NJ 08625
- Meeting Times: Wednesdays at 8:00 PM, Sundays at 11:00 AM
- Open meetings welcome to anyone interested, speaker meeting format
The 12 Steps of NA
NA (Narcotics Anonymous) is a 12-step program that provides support for people recovering from drug addiction. The 12 steps aim to guide members to accept their addiction, surrender to a higher power, self-reflect, make amends, and help others in recovery.
- We admitted we were powerless over our addiction, that our lives had become unmanageable.
- We came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.
- We made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood Him.
- We made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.
- We admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs.
- We were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character.
- We humbly asked Him to remove our shortcomings.
- We made a list of all the persons we had harmed and became willing to make amends to them all.
- We made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when doing so would injure them or others.
- We continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it.
- We sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God as we understood Him, praying only for knowledge of His will for us and the power to carry that out.
- Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to addicts and to practice these principles in all our affairs.
Getting Started with NA in New Jersey
Use the meeting search on methadone.org to find local Narcotics Anonymous (NA) meetings in your area of New Jersey. Both in-person and online/virtual meetings are available in most places across the state.
Attending Your First Local NA Meeting
NA meetings in New Jersey can be “open” or “closed”. Open meetings welcome anyone interested in the NA program, while closed meetings are only for those who have a desire to stop using drugs.
Here is a table distinguishing the two main meeting types:
Meeting Type | Description |
Open | Open to anyone interested in the NA program |
Closed | Only for those with a desire to stop using drugs |
When attending your first local NA meeting:
- Arrive early and introduce yourself as a new local member
- Share your experiences if you feel comfortable
Receive welcome keychain tags marking your first meeting and subsequent milestones like:
- 30 days
- 60 days
- 1 year
- 5 years
- 10 years
- Etc.