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When we were using drugs, our minds and bodies were clouded by drugs. Many of us couldn't even imagine a life without drugs.

Our whole lives were centered in addiction in one form or another. Toward the end of our active addiction, we saw no way out.

Many of us envisioned ourselves living and dying as using addicts. We accepted this deadly self-imposed death sentence. For most of us jail, medicine, religion and psychiatry failed to Help us.

Arriving to Narcotics Anonymous, we heard from others that we didn't have to use anymore. We saw the evidence of Clean addicts Living and enjoying Life without the use of drugs. We heard these members say that working the Program transformed them into different people from when they were using. Narcotics Anonymous offers a set of Simple Spiritual Principles to encompass our existence.

We heard other members at Meetings say, "It works if you work it", not, it works if you know it. Utilizing the Spiritual Principles of this Program with the Help of our Higher Power and others, we could also receive this Special Gift. All we had to do first was to Surrender to the disease and then to the Program of Narcotics Anonymous. We had to Practice Complete and Total Abstinence from drugs to start to Recover.

We then had to Practice these Simple Spiritual Principles to every area of our Lives. We've seen it work for countless others. First they had an Honest Desire to stop using, then they applied these Spiritual Principles to every area of their Lives.

With this Hope we experienced we were propelled into action. This action turned into Faith as the Program worked for us as well. Our Twelfth Step says, as our Recovery progresses, Spiritual Principles touch every area of our Lives.

In This Moment: We see the evidence of addicts around us Living a Life filled with Happiness, Joy and Freedom. We also see with the Help of others, the work that this Way Of Life requires.