What is Narcotics Anonymous?
Narcotics Anonymous (NA) is a nonprofit fellowship or society of recovering drug addicts whose primary purpose is to help addicts stop using drugs. It’s available for free in cities across the United States.
North Club
- Address: 306 E Tarpon Ave, Tarpon Springs, FL 34689
- Sunday Open Discussion Group at 6:00 PM
The Turning Point Group
- Address: 6189 9th Ave N, St Petersburg, FL 33710
- Monday Candlelight Meeting at 7:30 PM
Live & Let Live
- Address: 102, 1760 Turner St, Clearwater, FL 33756
- Tuesday Step Study Meeting at 7:00 PM
Narcotics Anonymous was founded in the 1950s as a nonprofit fellowship for recovering drug addicts. Today there are over 70,000 NA meetings held globally. The program is completely free and open to anyone seeking help with drug addiction.
The 12 Steps of NA
Narcotics Anonymous (NA) is a nonprofit fellowship or society of men and women for whom drugs had become a major problem. NA members follow a set of guiding principles known as the 12 steps to achieve and maintain addiction recovery:
- We admitted we were powerless over 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 persons we had harmed and became willing to make amends to them all.
- We made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do 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 Saint Petersburg
Use meeting search on Methadone.org to find local meetings in your area. Both in-person and online/virtual meetings are available.
Attending Your First Local NA Meeting
Saint Petersburg, Pinellas, Florida offers both open and closed NA meetings.
Open meetings welcome anyone interested in the NA program, while closed meetings are only for those who identify as addicts. Check the meeting schedule to see meeting type details.
Arrive early and introduce yourself as a new local member. Share your experiences if comfortable. You may receive welcome keychain tags marking clean time milestones like:
- 30 days
- 60 days
- 1 year