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
October 16, 2026 |
The simplest prayer |
| Page 302 |
| “…praying only for knowledge of His will for us and the power to carry that out.” |
| Step Eleven |
| How do we pray? With little experience, many of us don’t even know how to begin. The process, however, is neither difficult nor complicated. We came to Narcotics Anonymous because of our drug addiction. But underlying that, many of us felt a deep sense of bewilderment with life itself. We seemed to be lost, wandering a trackless waste with no one to guide us. Prayer is a way to gain direction in life and the power to follow that direction. Because prayer plays such a central part in NA recovery, many of us set aside a particular time each day to pray, establishing a pattern. In this quiet time, we “talk” to our Higher Power, either silently or aloud. We share our thoughts, our feelings, our day. We ask, “What would you have me do?” At the same time we ask, “Please give me the power to carry out your will.” Learning to pray is simple. We ask for “knowledge of His will for us and the power to carry that out.” By doing that, we find the direction we lacked and the strength we need to fulfill our God’s will. |
| Just for Today: I will set aside some quiet time to “talk” with my Higher Power. I will ask for that Power’s direction and the ability to act on it. |
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Spiritual Principle A Day
October 16, 2026 |
Honesty Versus Denial’s Fancy Footwork |
| Page 299 |
| “When we fully concede to our innermost selves that we are powerless over our addiction, we have taken a big step in our recovery.” |
| Basic Text, Chapter 5: What Can I Do? |
| One member shared their favorite NA metaphor: “Fighting our addiction without recovery is like entering the ring with the boxing world champion. We think we can get in just one good punch, but repeatedly we’re pummeled to the ground. After many tries, we finally concede that the disease will eventually knock our lights out permanently. Admitting powerlessness is the first of many strategies we’ll need to fight it.” It didn’t matter how practiced we were in our fancy footwork of denial. No matter our clever cunning, our brute strength, or our fearlessness in the face of danger, we did not succeed in managing our drug use. We lost that fight and came to NA cut, bruised, and beaten down. Admitting “I am an addict” the first time and many times thereafter is a big step, but to fully concede our powerlessness, we go deeper than that honest admission. Our first approach to Step One shows the value of getting honest. Honesty loosens our grip on denial and unlocks surrender. In time, the same line of attack will help us examine other areas of our lives. As we work the Steps, we discover more truths about our innermost selves. Other members help us make sense of what we find and, eventually, we’re able to help others do the same. The member continued with their metaphor: “The recovery process involves struggle, strategy, and triumph. Striving for complete honesty and ongoing surrender, we have a fighting chance. But we never fully retire from the ring.” Years on, we’ll struggle with new (or old) areas of our lives where our nemesis of denial rears up again. We get in the ring–and bam! We get hit with a lights-out combo of relationships, sex, or other compulsive behaviors. Confronting our denial about these issues, surrendering and admitting powerlessness in these arenas–and doing the necessary work–furthers our progress in recovery. To stay clean, we have to. |
| I don’t need to get back in the ring with the champ or suffer denial’s low blows to know there’s still work to do. With the Steps as my strategy, I won’t be beat down. |
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