July 12

Our Literature tells us that there're two things that make up the disease of addiction, obsession and compulsion. Most of us can't argue that this describes how we used drugs. In fact, it probably describes how we as using addicts lived most of our lives, even before the drug use. Drug use enhanced our addiction, after a while, for most of us, it was all we can think about.

Drugs and addiction became the center of our lives. We use to live and live to use. Most of us put using ahead of the welfare of our Families, Friends and ourselves.

The drugs came first, then everything else, if at all. At this point most of had to use, we had no choice. We were caught in the grip of our addiction and saw no way out.

We couldn't stop on our own, we needed something to happen that stopped us. We call this our bottom.

Arriving to Narcotics Anonymous and Surrendering to its Spiritual Principles opened up the Solution to our problem. The First Step treated our compulsion, and the Second Step treated our obsession. We realize that we cannot do the Program by ourselves.

We need the Help of a God Of Our Own Understanding and the Fellowship of Narcotics Anonymous. In Narcotics Anonymous we treat more than just the symptoms of our disease. Working and Living the Program results in a total Spiritual Awakening.