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Research Notes on Narcotics Anonymous
Narcotics Anonymous (NA) is a twelve-step program of recovery from drug addiction, modeled on Alcoholics Anonymous. It describes itself as a nonprofit "fellowship or society of men and women for whom drugs had become a major problem", and it is the second-largest 12-step organization in existence. The program is group-oriented, and is based on the Twelve Steps and the Twelve Traditions, adapted from A.A....read more from Wikipedia
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- Narcotics anonymous came from the A.A. program with meetings starting in California in the 1950's.1
- NA provides support for drug addicts trying to overcome addiction.1
- In 1978 there were 200 groups in 3 countries and in 2007 there were 25,065 groups in 127 countries.1
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Research Notes References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Narcotics Anonymous World Services: Information About NA
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