April 4

For most addicts, in the beginning of their addiction, drugs were the Solution. The effects or drugs took us out of ourselves.

Drugs prevented us from looking at reality, and they numbed us. We could not survive our emotions, so we buried our feelings while we were high. When the euphoria wore off, we had no choice; we had to use.

The more we used, the worse we felt. As our destruction progressed, we were forced to seek help. Many of us sought help through psychiatry, religion and medicine; all these methods failed to help us.

Doctors gave us drugs, but that only made our problems worse. Some of us were looking for a magic potion that would fix us. It never occurred to us that our problem was Spiritual in nature, and that it required a Spiritual Solution, not a chemical solution. In Narcotics Anonymous, Recovery is possible only after we attain Complete and Total Abstinence.

There is no easy way out. There is, however, a Simple way.

The Spiritual Principles of Narcotics Anonymous are our Solution, but they require Action on our part. In active addiction we depended on the drugs to get us where we wanted to go. The drugs did most of the work.

After coming to N.A., some of us still thought we could still depend on drugs to do the work. The pain of Living without drugs forces us to seek a Higher Power. Without this pain, there would be no need to seek a Higher Power.

Addicts today are being given false hope from the medical field. They are offered a chemical solution to a Spiritual problem, the easy way out, an easier softer way. The problem is that drugs never worked for us, they only continue to let our disease progress. Narcotics Anonymous offers a drug free lifestyle, with Unlimited Growth.