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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 have
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 cost. We did many people great harm, but
most of all we harmed ourselves. Through our inability to accept
personal responsibility 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 |
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from the book NARCOTICS ANONYMOUS © 1982, 1984, 1987, 1988
by Narcotics Anonymous World Service Office, Inc. |
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