Success stories
Link to: A Young Addict
She came to NA when she was only fifteen. From her very first meeting, she knew NA was the place for her. Now, more than twenty years later, she has transformed from an aggressive, dysfunctional teenager into a grateful NA member.
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Link to: Studied Addict
As a pharmacology PhD student, his knowledge of drugs almost killed him. Now a professor, he's been clean for over twenty years, and he knows recovery isn't a science.
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Link to: The only requirement
When he came to NA, he was still in a substitution program. He wanted what he saw in the Narcotics Anonymous rooms, but he was afraid that if he stopped taking methadone, he would revert back to his old life. He went to meetings every day for ten months - and finally got clean.
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Link to: Prisons, Institutions and Recovery
This addict found freedom behind bars through the fellowship of Narcotics Anonymous. This story comes from the first English language Basic Text.
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Link to: Serenity in the heart
When he was nine years clean, this addict was diagnosed with depression and schizophrenia. Since then he has had to treat these diseases with medication and therapy. He learned that while mental illness is an issue outside of NA, how he deals with it in his recovery, it is very much his internal issue.
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Link to: finally belonging
After feeling different all her life, this lesbian addict found the key to belonging at a gay and lesbian get-together.
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