15 Ekim

We first used drugs, then drugs used us. Our using began as a normal event and was recreational. We soon became preoccupied with using drugs even when we weren't using.

The progression sometimes rapid, at times slowly, at the end drugs used us. That earlier euphoria that drugs gave us no longer came. The feelings of emptiness and despair returned whenever we put the drugs down.

Toward the end of our drug use, we used to avoid getting sick. We didn't set out to become addicts. After a while, we found that we couldn't Live with or without the use of drugs.

We used drugs to survive, and it was the only way we knew how to Live. Our Lives became unmanageable and most of us sought help from religion, medicine, institutions and doctors; some of us went to jails or institutions; all these methods failed us. The last house on the block was Narcotics Anonymous. We found our Solution in Narcotics Anonymous. We found out that we suffered from a Spiritual disease.

Doctors and modern medicine just seem to enable our disease even more. We soon learn that a Spiritual problem needs a Spiritual Solution not a chemical one. Today being Clean and Serene is an abnormal state for us.

It's the best Life we ever have known.

Every day, More Will Be Revealed.

In This Moment: Although we had no choice in being addicts, we can choose Recovery. We could take advantage of what N.A. has to offer us.