Rappahannock Area of Narcotics Anonymous

Welcome to the Rappahannock Area of Narcotics Anonymous home page. We love you and accept you with open arms. We are proud to serve our fellowship and to be allowed to inform the public about our area and the recovery within it. Please have a look around. Check out the Family Links page for Other areas pages. Also, Swing by the History page to read about our specific area of this fellowship, the Rappahannock Area. We would like to take this time to thank you for your interest and would love to extend this message to you: Our message is HOPE. Our promise is FREEDOM from active addiction. In Narcotics Anonymous you are Never Alone. Just for Today you NEVER have to use again.

Who is an Addict?

Most of us do not have to think twice about this question. WE KNOW! Our whole life and thinking was centered in drugs in one form or another - the getting and using and finding ways and means to get more. We lived to use and used to live. Very simply, an addict is a man or woman whose life is controlled by drugs. We are people in the grip of a continuing and progressive illness whose ends are always the same: jails, institutions and death.

What is the Narcotics Anonymous Program?

N.A. is a nonprofit Fellowship or society of men and women for whom drugs had become a major problem. We are recovering addicts who meet regularly to help each other stay clean. This is a program of complete abstinence from all drugs. There is only one requirement for membership, the desire to stop using. We suggest that you keep an open mind and give yourself a break. Our program is a set of principles written so simply that we can follow them in our daily lives. The most important thing about them is that they work. There are no strings attached to N.A. We are not affiliated with any other organizations, we have no initiation fees or dues, no pledges to sign, no promises to make to anyone. We are not connected with any political, religious or law enforcement groups, and are under no surveillance at any time. Anyone may join us, regardless of age, race, sexual identity, creed, religion or lack of religion. We are not interested in what or how much you used or who your connections were, what you have done in the past, how much or how little you have, but only in what you want to do about your problem and how we can help. The newcomer is the most important person at any meeting, because we can only keep what we have by giving it away. We have learned from our group experience that those who keep coming to our meetings regularly stay clean.

Just For Today Daily Meditation!

Why Are We Here?

Before coming to the Fellowship of NA, we could not

manage our own lives. We could not live and enjoy life as other

people do. We had to have something different and we thought

we had found it in drugs. We placed their use ahead of the

welfare of our families, our wives, husbands, and our children.

We had to have drugs at all costs. We did many people great

harm but most of all we harmed ourselves. Through our

inability to accept personal responsibilities we were actually

creating our own problems. We seemed to be incapable of

facing life on its own terms.

Most of us realized that in our addiction we were slowly

committing suicide, but addiction is such a cunning enemy of

life that we had lost the power to do anything about it. Many of

us ended up in jail or sought help through medicine, religion,

and psychiatry. None of these methods was sufficient for us.

Our disease always resurfaced or continued to progress until

in desperation we sought help from each other in Narcotics

Anonymous.

After coming to NA, we realized we were sick people. We

suffered from a disease from which there is no known cure. It

can, however, be arrested at some point and recovery is then

possible.

When at the End of the Road
When At the end of the road we find that we can no longer function as a human being, either with or without drugs, we all face the same dilemma. What is there left to do? There seems to be this alternative; either go on as best we can to the bitter end - jails, institutions or death - or find a new way to live. In years gone by very few addicts ever had this last choice. Those who are addicted today are more fortunate. For the first time in mans entire history, a simple way has been proving itself in the lives of many addicts. It is available to us all, This is a simple spiritual - not religious - program known as Narcotics Anonymous.