January 26

At first, we used drugs and then drugs used us. Upon our Spiritual Awakenings, our experience's show that our disease was present long before we actually used drugs. Step Four revealed that we suffered from a Spiritual malady that led to Spiritual decay. For a while, for many of us, drugs were the Solution; they saved us from ourselves.

The drugs helped us survive our feelings and our emotions. We used drugs to fill the void in our Lives. After a while, the drugs stop working.

The drugs only made our void bigger and our Lives more painful. The drugs started using us.

Using drugs became our way of life. We suffered emotionally, Spiritually, mentally, physically, and our Lives became unmanageable. Many of us ended up in jails, institutions, in degradation and some of us died.

After trying everything with no success, we stumbled into Narcotics Anonymous. For most of us, it was the last house on the block.

Here, we met people, who like us suffered from the horrors of addiction. These same people found a Solution and Shared it with us. The first thing we had to do was to stop using drugs, in any form. Our Second Step tells us that the pain of Living without drugs or anything else to replace them (including other drugs) forces us to seek a Power Greater Than Ourselves that will relieve our obsession to use.

We found the Solution that eluded us all our Lives. We found a Spiritual Solution to a Spiritual problem called addiction. In Narcotics Anonymous, our Spirits Awake and we come to know a Life we never knew was possible.

Recovery in N.A. leaves the sick person in a better condition than before they got sick. We are Welcome back to the land of the Living. We Share this Message of Hope, Promise of Freedom with others, in order to keep this Precious Gift.