Nar-Anon Indiana
We
are here to help the families and friends of addicts. Our
meetings are for you who know or have known a feeling of desperation
concerning the addiction problem of someone very near to you. We
have traveled that unhappy road too, and found the answer with serenity
and peace of mind.
When you come to a meeting, you are no longer alone,
but among true friends who understand your problem as few others
could. We will respect your confidence and anonymity as we know
you will respect ours. We hope to give you the assurance that no
situation is too difficult and no unhappiness is too great to be
overcome.
The program is based on the twelve suggested steps
of Narcotics Anonymous. We have found that the working of these
steps will bring the solution to practically any problem. We ask
for the wisdom and courage to see ourselves as we really are, to do
something about ourselves with the help of a higher power, as we
understand this, and for the grace to release our addicts with love and
cease trying to change them.
With the understanding that addiction is a disease,
and the realization that we are powerless over it as well as over other
people’s lives, we are ready to do something useful and
constructive with our own. Then, and only then, can we be of any
help to others.
About Addiction
We have learned that addiction is an illness-not a
moral issue. It is a two-fold disease: A physical allergy
coupled with an obsession of the mind. It can be arrested, but
never cured. It is similar in nature to diabetes in this
respect. Only complete abstinence from the use of drugs or
alcohol in any form, including medicine, can arrest this disease.
We can no more prevent the addict’s use of drugs than we can stop
the tubercular’s coughing. No one, not even the doctor, nor
the clergy, nor the family, can do this for him or her.
We have found that the compulsive use of drugs does
not indicate lack of affection for the family. It is not a matter
of love, but of illness. The addict has lost power of choice in
the matter of drugs. Even when he knows what will happen when he
takes the first drink, pill, or fix, he will do so. This is the
‘insanity’ we speak of in regard to this illness.
When we fully understand and accept that
addiction is a disease, that it is both mental and physical, and that
we are powerless over it, we become ready to learn a better way to live.
Above c 1971, NAR ANON Family Group Headquarters-Adapted by permission
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