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Medicine, religion and psychiatry seemed to have no answers for us that we could use. All these methods having failed for us, in desperation, we sought help from each other in Narcotics Anonymous.
Gray Book, p. 23 (Chapter Three, Header)
Why Are We Here Chapter describes the life of a using drug addict. It describes the progression of the disease of addiction as it pertains to drug use. Our Identification as addicts comes from some of these symptoms and events.
Our irresponsibility in our lives was causing our own problems. Medicating ourselves to cover up feelings of inferiority and inadequacy just to mention a few. Waking up sick and doing whatever it took to keep using.
Our path of destruction was unbeknownst to us, and hurting mostly the ones we loved. Toward the end of our bottoms, we tried several other remedies to our problems. We tried new jobs, new towns, new lovers.
We tried religion, therapists, doctors, psychiatrists, medication, other drugs and institutions, including jails. Our Literature tells us that these so call solutions did not hold any answers that we could use. Most of us tried them all and it failed to bring us Complete and Total Abstinence and Recovery. Most of us arrived to Narcotics Anonymous when we ran out of choices.
For many of us it can be described as the last house on the block. We arrived out of desperation and were beaten into submission by our pain. Narcotics Anonymous was what was missing, all our lives.
We felt what home is supposed to feel like here. The members Greeted us with Unconditional Love.
Our Identification as addicts came at a deep level of feelings and emotions. This is the wordless language of Empathy. Welcome to Narcotics Anonymous, Welcome Home.
In This Moment: We will have Gratitude for this God Given Program by Sharing it with others that seek it.