Narcotics Anonymous Meetings in Alaska

What is Narcotics Anonymous?

Narcotics Anonymous (NA) is a non-profit fellowship or society that offers recovery support for people struggling with drug addiction. NA support groups are available for free across cities in the United States, with over 70,000 meetings held globally since the organization was founded in the 1950s.

Anchorage

• Mondays at 7PM – Literature study group
• Tuesdays at 8PM – Speaker meeting
• Thursdays at 6PM – Beginners meeting

Juneau

• Sundays at 5PM – Step study meeting
• Wednesdays at 7PM – Topic discussion meeting

Fairbanks

• Tuesdays at 6PM – Beginners meeting
• Fridays at 8PM – Speaker meeting

The 12 Steps of NA

Narcotics Anonymous (NA) is a nonprofit fellowship or society of recovering drug addicts whose primary purpose is to help addicts stop using drugs. NA outlines a 12-step plan to achieve and maintain sobriety:

1. We admitted we were powerless over our addiction, that our lives had become unmanageable.
2. We came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.
3. We made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood Him.
4. We made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.
5. We admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs.
6. We were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character.
7. We humbly asked Him to remove our shortcomings.
8. We made a list of all persons we had harmed, and became willing to make amends to them all.
9. We made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others.
10. We continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it.
11. 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.
12. 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.

NA meetings across Alaska provide a supportive environment for members to discuss their struggles and achievements using this 12-step program. The fellowship aims to motivate its members toward positive change in their lives and communities.

Getting Started with NA in Alaska

Use the meeting search on Methadone.org to find local meetings in your area. Both in-person and online/virtual meetings are available in most places across Alaska.

Attending Your First Local NA Meeting

Alaska has both open and closed NA meetings:

• Open meetings welcome anyone interested in the NA program, including non-addicts.
• Closed meetings are for addicts only.

Arrive early to your first meeting and introduce yourself as a new local member. Share your experiences if you feel comfortable.

You may receive welcome keychain tags marking sobriety milestones like:

• 30 days
• 60 days
• 1 year

The most important things are attending regularly and finding support from fellow members. Recovery is an ongoing process.