April 30

The disease of addiction is progressive, incurable, and fatal. For those of us that have this disease, there's only the Hope of arresting and treating this disease.

In Narcotics Anonymous, we look at this disease as a Spiritual Malady. We treat this disease with a Spiritual Solution, not with chemicals. We first have to be totally Abstinent from all mind altering/mood changing drugs, for Recovery to work. A Spiritual disease requires a Spiritual Solution, so our answer is a Loving, Caring Higher Power, of our Own Understanding.

This Power is just as strong; if not stronger than the disease of addiction. In Narcotics Anonymous we don't only treat the symptom of the disease, but we also treat the cause of it. This disease being supernatural in nature, needs a supernatural Power to manifest itself in a Group of people, to treat and keep this disease at bey.

What we can't do alone, we do it together with the Fellowship of Narcotics Anonymous. Here, we found ourselves with a special Group of people, who like us suffered from the horrors of addiction. These people we first met, seem to be Happy, Joyous and more importantly Free.

As we took the Steps with the Guidance of a Narcotics Anonymous Sponsor; we started to see that this Higher Power was doing for us what we could not do for ourselves. We tapped into this Power for Strength to get and stay on the Road of Recovery. The Evidence of Sanity was all around us at meetings.

Members were staying clean with surmountable amounts of clean time. We saw members finding a New Way of Life, without the use of drugs. We have Hope that we too can join others on this Spiritual Journey.