Narcotics Anonymous is a global, community-based organization with a multi-lingual and multicultural membership. NA was founded in 1953, and our membership growth was minimal during our initial twenty years as an organization. Since the publication of our Basic Text in 1983, the number of members and meetings has increased dramatically.
Today, NA members hold nearly 76,000 meetings weekly in 143 countries. We offer recovery from the effects of addiction through working a twelve-step program, including regular attendance at group meetings. The group atmosphere provides help from peers and offers an ongoing support network for addicts who wish to pursue and maintain a drug-free lifestyle.
Our name, Narcotics Anonymous, is not meant to imply a focus on any particular drug; NA’s approach makes no distinction between drugs including alcohol. Membership is free, and we have no affiliation with any organizations outside of NA including governments, religions, law enforcement groups, or medical and psychiatric facilities. Through all of our service efforts and our cooperation with others seeking to help addicts, we strive to reach a day when every addict in the world has an opportunity to experience our message of recovery in his or her own language and culture.
This site is hosted by the NA Greater New Brunswick Area Service Committee of New Jersey. We serve recovering addicts in this area and those who are visiting this area. If you need meeting information for other areas of New Jersey, visit Narcotics Anonymous of New Jersey. If you are looking for help beyond New Jersey, visit Narcotics Anonymous. If you are someone who is seeking recovering from active addiction in our area, attend our meetings and visit our subcommittee page to see how you can get involved.
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“What is our message? The message is that an addict, any addict,
Basic Text, page 65
can stop using drugs, lose the desire to use, and find a new way to live.
Our message is hope and the promise of freedom.”
Just For Today Meditation
January 16, 2026 |
Make that call! |
| Page 16 |
| “We feared that if we ever revealed ourselves as we were, we would surely be rejected…. [But] our fellow members do understand us.” |
| Basic Text, p. 32 |
| We need our fellow NA members–their experience, their friendship, their laughter, their guidance, and much, much more. Yet many of us hesitate to call our sponsor or visit our NA friends. We don’t want to impose on them. We think about phoning someone, but we don’t feel worthy of their time. We fear that if they ever got to know us–really know us–they’d surely reject us. We forget that our fellow NA members are just like us. There’s nothing we’ve done, no place we’ve been, no feeling we’ve felt that other recovering addicts won’t be able to identify with. The more we let others get to know us, the more we’ll hear, “You’re in the right place. You’re among friends. You belong. Welcome!” We also forget that, just as we need others, they need us. We’re not the only ones who want to feel like we belong, who want to experience the warmth of friendship, who want someone to share with. If we isolate ourselves from our fellow members, we deprive them of something they need, something only we can give them: our time, our company, our true selves. In Narcotics Anonymous, recovering addicts care for one another. What waits at the other end of the telephone is not rejection, but the love, warmth, and identification of the NA Fellowship. Make that call! |
| Just for Today: In NA, I am among friends. I will reach out to others, giving and receiving in fellowship. |
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Spiritual Principle A Day
January 16, 2026 |
Finding Our Passion and Purpose |
| Page 16 |
| “Something different happens as we move into recovery motivated by passion, hope, and excitement. We are released into our own lives.” |
| Living Clean, Chapter 1, “Why We Stay” |
| Some of us spend our early days of recovery in NA more focused on what we were trapped in and what we are escaping–compulsion, isolation, alienation, desperation–than aware of what we want in our lives. We see right away that people in NA have gained some freedom from the consequences of addiction, and hope keeps us coming back. It didn’t take long to realize that many recovering addicts get much more than freedom from the cage of addiction–they gain freedom to explore the world outside that cage. “When I was using, every other interest took a backseat to my disease,” one member wrote. “In one of my earliest meetings, I heard an addict share about going into the wilderness to get back into rock climbing after 15 years away from it. I had no interest in climbing rocks, but the idea of being released into the wild was so exciting to me. I decided to find a passion of my own.” That’s how it goes in recovery: We regain the ability to pursue our interests. Rock climbing, songwriting, restoring old cars–our lives become our own to live. For many of us, the drive and excitement to follow our own interests grows out of our passion for recovery and carrying the message. Another member wrote, “I was so stoked about life without drugs in early recovery. As soon as I had enough cleantime, people invited me to share on H&I panels left and right, and I felt like I had a purpose. After years of thinking the world was full of threats, I started seeing opportunities everywhere.” |
| Where addiction limits us and makes our world smaller, recovery opens us up to the world. What opportunities are on my horizon today? |
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