12 steps and 12 traditions

The 12 Steps

1. 
We admitted we were powerless
over our addiction and that our
lives had become unmanageable.
2.
We came to believe that a power greater
than ourselves could restore us to sanity.
3.
We made a decision to turn our
will and our lives over to the care
of God as we understood God.
4.
We made a searching and
fearless moral inventory of
ourselves.
5.
We admitted to God, to ourselves,
and to another human being the
exact nature of our wrongs.
6.
We were entirely ready to
have God remove all these
defects of character.
7.
We humbly asked Him to
remove our shortcomings.
8.
We made a list of all persons
we had harmed and became
willing to make amends to them all.
9.
We made direct amends to such
people wherever possible, except
when to do so would injure them
or others.
10.
We continued to take personal
inventory and when we were
wrong promptly admitted it.
11.
We sought through prayer and
meditation to improve our conscious
contact with God as we
understood Him, praying only
or knowledge of His will for us and
the power to carry that out.
12.
Having had a spiritual awakening
as a result of these steps,
we tried to carry this message to
addicts, and to practice these
principles in all our affairs.

The 12 Traditions

1. 
Our common welfare should
come first; personal recovery
depends on NA unity.
2.
For our group purpose there is but
one ultimate authority- a loving God
as He may express Himself in our group
conscience. Our leaders are but trusted
servants; they do not govern.
3. 
The only requirement for membership
is a desire to stop using.
4. 
Each group should be autonomous
except in matters affecting other
groups or NA as a whole.
5. 
Each group has but one primary
purpose -to carry the message to
the addict who still suffers.
6. 
An NA group ought never endorse,
finance, or lend the NA name to any
related facility or outside enterprise,
lest problems of money, property,
or prestige divert us from our primary
purpose.
7. 
Every NA group ought to be
fully self-supporting, declining
outside contributions.
8.
Narcotics Anonymous should remain
forever nonprofessional, but our
service centers may employ special
workers.
9. 
NA, as such, ought never be organized,
but we may create service boards or
committees directly responsible
to those they serve.
10.
Narcotics Anonymous has no opinion
on outside issues; hence the NA
name ought never be drawn into
public controversy.
11.
Our public relations policy is based on
attraction rather than promotion; we need
always maintain personal anonymity at
the level of press, radio, and films.
 12.
Anonymity is the spiritual
foundation of all our Traditions,
ever reminding us to place
principles before personalities.