Narcotics Anonymous Meetings in Savannah, GA

What is Narcotics Anonymous?

Narcotics Anonymous (NA) is a nonprofit fellowship or society of men and women for whom drugs had become a major problem. Members meet regularly to help each other stay clean through complete abstinence from all drugs. This is a program of complete abstinence from all drugs. There is only one requirement for membership, the desire to stop using.

Jehovah’s Lutheran Church

• Monday at 8:00 PM (Open Discussion)
• Wednesday at 8:00 PM (Open Discussion)

First City Network

• Sunday at 6:30 PM (Just for Today)
• Tuesday at 6:30 PM (Living Clean)
• Thursday at 6:30 PM (Basic Text Study)

St. Paul’s Episcopal Church

• Monday at 7:00 PM (Living Clean)
• Friday at 7:00 PM (Basic Text Study)

Founded in 1953, Narcotics Anonymous is a global organization with over 70,000 meetings in 144 countries worldwide. NA uses a traditional 12-step model that has been adapted from Alcoholics Anonymous to provide support for people struggling with drug addiction.

The 12 Steps of NA

Narcotics Anonymous (NA) is a nonprofit fellowship for recovering drug addicts. Below are the 12 steps that serve as its foundation to help members achieve and maintain abstinence from drug addiction:

1. We admitted we were powerless over our addiction and 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 the people we had harmed and became willing to make amends to them all.
9. We made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when doing so would injure them or others.
10. We continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong, we 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 Savannah, Chatham county, and the state of Georgia aim to provide encouragement, hope, help and support to members to motivate them towards positive change in their journey of addiction recovery. NA offers members the therapeutic power of one addict helping another through the process of staying clean.

Getting Started with NA in Savannah

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

There are two main types of NA meetings in Savannah:

Arrive early to your first meeting and introduce yourself as a new local member. Share your experiences if you feel comfortable. You will likely receive welcome keychain tags marking your progress at your first meeting:

• 30 days
• 60 days
• 90 days
• 6 months
• 9 months
• 1 year

The tags serve as encouragement to keep attending meetings and working through the 12-step program. NA relies on its group members to share experience, strength, and hope with each other, so try to engage with empathy and support. Though each journey is unique, listening to others may help provide inspiration and accountability.