Welcome to Recovery on the Island!
As addicts,
we have each experienced the pain, loneliness, and despair of
addiction.
Before coming to NA, most of us tried everything we could think of
to control our use of drugs.
We tried switching drugs, thinking that we only had a problem with
one particular drug.
We tried limiting our drug use to certain times or places.
We may even have vowed to stop using altogether at a certain point.
We may have told ourselves we would never do the things we watched
other addicts do, then found ourselves doing those very things.
Nothing we tried had any lasting effect. Our active addiction
continued to progress, overpowering even our best intentions.
Alone, terrified of what the future held for us,
we found the Fellowship of Narcotics Anonymous.
We Do Recover
When at the end of the road we find that we can no
longer function as a human being, either with or without
drugs, e 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 ends—jails, br />
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 man’s 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.
The general mission of our Groups public information is to inform addicts and
others in the community of the availability of recovery in Narcotics Anonymous.