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Coping with life isn't something addicts do well, that's part of the reason we use drugs. Addiction and using drugs served as a distraction to life and its terms. Wherever some of us felt a confrontation, or conflict about to happen; we managed to escape. We were excellent escape artists, Houdini had nothing on us.

Most of us couldn't face life and it's events unless we were loaded. Drugs the greatest anesthesia was our source of denial. Drugs seem to make living bearable for most of us.

We couldn't survive our emotions without them. So in a sense drugs were our solution for a while. Since addiction is a progressive disease, the drugs stopped working.

Fear that originally ran our lives was now the dominant factor in our lives. At this point most of us were missing from our own lives. After trying everything else without success, we found ourselves in Narcotics Anonymous.

Here we learned to stop running. We learned that fear can mean, face everything and Recover.

We found a Fellowship to support us. We learned about Complete and Total Abstinence.

Living without drugs forced us to find a God of our own Understanding. With the Help of our Sponsor Guiding us through the Steps and Traditions we finally stop Living in fear. We learn that with each conflict there's an opportunity to Grow. We also Strengthen our Relationship with God, with our Families and the people around us.

In This Moment: Fear now stands for Face Everything and Recover. Today we will use whatever is bothering us as our greatest Teacher.