Narcotics Anonymous Meetings in South Carolina

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. This program, which is adapted from Alcoholics Anonymous, is available for free in cities across the United States.

Coastal Recovery Center

• Monday – Friday: 7:00pm
• Saturday: 10:00am
• Sunday: 6:00pm

Open discussion meetings using NA approved literature

Awakenings Center

• Monday, Wednesday, Friday: 6:00pm
• Tuesday, Thursday: Noon
• Saturday: 5:30 pm

Closed meetings for addicts only

Redemption Church

• Monday–Friday: 7:30 pm
• Saturday: 9:00 am
• Sunday: 6:00 pm

Candlelight meetings are open for anyone interested in recovery

The 12 Steps of NA

The 12 steps of Narcotics Anonymous (NA) provide a path to recovery from drug addiction. The steps aim to help members achieve and maintain sobriety through acceptance, spiritual awakening, and service.

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.

The 12 steps aim to motivate NA members to make positive changes in their lives by working through the recovery process with the support of other members and a higher power. NA groups across South Carolina work to carry this message of hope and healing to those still suffering from addiction in local communities.

Getting Started with NA in South Carolina

Use the meeting search on Methadone.org to find local Narcotics Anonymous (NA) meetings in your area of South Carolina. Both in-person and online/virtual meetings are available in most places across the state.

Attending Your First Local NA Meeting

South Carolina offers both open and closed NA meetings:

• Open meetings welcome anyone to attend, including family members and friends. These are good options for your first meeting.
• Closed meetings are for admitted addicts only. Wait until you’ve attended a few open meetings first before participating in a closed group.

Arrive 10-15 minutes early to your first meeting and introduce yourself to the facilitator as a new local member. Share your experiences if you feel comfortable, but there is no obligation to speak. You will likely receive a welcome keychain tag marking your first 30 days of sobriety. As you progress in the program, you’ll accumulate tags marking important milestones like 60 days, 1 year sober, etc. Keychain milestones often include:

• 30 days
• 60 days
• 90 days
• 6 months
• 9 months
• 1 year
• 18 months
• Multiple years

The NA community will support you through caring fellowship during your first meeting and beyond. Keep attending regularly to gain stability, perspective, and the wisdom you need to sustain lifelong recovery.