{"id":77,"date":"2017-12-19T23:40:24","date_gmt":"2017-12-19T23:40:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nai.is\/?page_id=77"},"modified":"2018-09-25T14:12:04","modified_gmt":"2018-09-25T14:12:04","slug":"hver-hvad-hvernig-og-hvers-vegna","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/nai.is\/en\/um-na\/hver-hvad-hvernig-og-hvers-vegna\/","title":{"rendered":"Who, what, how and why?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Who is an addict?<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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What is the Narcotics Anonymous program?<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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\nNA is a nonprofit fellowship or society of men and women for whom drugs had become a\nmajor problem. We are recovering addicts who meet regularly to help each other stay clean.\nThis is a program of complete abstinence from all drugs. There is only one requirement for\nmembership, the desire to stop using. We suggest that you keep an open mind and give\nyourself a break. Our program is a set of principles written so simply that we can follow them\nin our daily lives. The most important thing about them is that they work.\n<\/p>\n

\nThere are no strings attached to NA. We are not affiliated with any other organizations. We\nhave no initiation fees or dues, no pledges to sign, no promises to make to anyone. We are not\nconnected with any political, religious, or law enforcement groups, and are under no\nsurveillance at any time. Anyone may join us, regardless of age, race, sexual identity, creed,\nreligion, or lack of religion.\n<\/p>\n

\nWe are not interested in what or how much you used or who your connections were, what\nyou have done in the past, how much or how little you have, but only in what you want to do\nabout your problem and how we can help. The newcomer is the most important person at any\nmeeting, because we can only keep what we have by giving it away. We have learned from our\ngroup experience that those who keep coming to our meetings regularly stay clean.\n<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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\nBefore coming to the Fellowship of NA, we could not manage our own lives. We could not\nlive and enjoy life as other people do. We had to have something different and we thought we\nhad found it in drugs. We placed their use ahead of the welfare of our families, our wives,\nhusbands, and our children. We had to have drugs at all costs. We did many people great harm,\nbut most of all we harmed ourselves. Through our inability to accept personal responsibilities\nwe were actually creating our own problems. We seemed to be incapable of facing life on its\nown terms.\n<\/p>\n

\nMost of us realized that in our addiction we were slowly committing suicide, but addiction is\nsuch a cunning enemy of life that we had lost the power to do anything about it. Many of us\nended up in jail, or sought help through medicine, religion, and psychiatry. None of these\nmethods was sufficient for us. Our disease always resurfaced or continued to progress until, in\ndesperation, we sought help from each other in Narcotics Anonymous.\n<\/p>\n

\nAfter coming to NA we realized we were sick people. We suffered from a disease from which\nthere is no known cure. It can, however, be arrested at some point, and recovery is then possible.\n<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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How it works<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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\nIf you want what we have to offer, and are willing to make the effort to get it, then you are\nready to take certain steps. These are the principles that made our recovery possible.\n<\/p>\n

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

    \nThis sounds like a big order, and we can\u2019t do it all at once. We didn\u2019t become addicted in one\nday, so remember\u2014easy does it.\n<\/p>\n

    \nThere is one thing more than anything else that will defeat us in our recovery; this is an\nattitude of indifference or intolerance toward spiritual principles. Three of these that are\nindispensable are honesty, open-mindedness, and willingness. With these we are well on our\nway.\n<\/p>\n

    \nWe feel that our approach to the disease of addiction is completely realistic, for the\ntherapeutic value of one addict helping another is without parallel. We feel that our way is\npractical, for one addict can best understand and help another addict. We believe that the\nsooner we face our problems within our society, in everyday living, just that much faster do we\nbecome acceptable, responsible, and productive members of that society.\n<\/p>\n

    \nThe only way to keep from returning to active addiction is not to take that first drug. If you\nare like us you know that one is too many and a thousand never enough. We put great\nemphasis on this, for we know that when we use drugs in any form, or substitute one for\nanother, we release our addiction all over again.\n<\/p>\n

    \nThinking of alcohol as different from other drugs has caused a great many addicts to relapse.\nBefore we came to NA, many of us viewed alcohol separately, but we cannot afford to be\nconfused about this. Alcohol is a drug. We are people with the disease of addiction who must\nabstain from all drugs in order to recover.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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    The Twelve Traditions of NA<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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    \nWe keep what we have only with vigilance, and just as freedom for the individual comes\nfrom the Twelve Steps, so freedom for the group springs from our traditions.\n<\/p>\n

    \nAs long as the ties that bind us together are stronger than those that would tear us apart, all\nwill be well.\n<\/p>\n

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    1. Our common welfare should come first; personal recovery depends on NA unity.<\/li>\n
    2. For our group purpose there is but one ultimate authority\u2014a loving God as He may express\nHimself in our group conscience. Our leaders are but trusted servants; they do not govern.<\/li>\n
    3. The only requirement for membership is a desire to stop using.<\/li>\n
    4. Each group should be autonomous except in matters affecting other groups or\nNA as a whole.<\/li>\n
    5. Each group has but one primary purpose\u2014to carry the message to the addict\nwho still suffers.<\/li>\n
    6. An NA group ought never endorse, finance, or lend the NA name to any related facility or\noutside enterprise, lest problems of money, property, or prestige divert us from our\nprimary purpose.<\/li>\n
    7. Every NA group ought to be fully self-supporting, declining outside contributions.<\/li>\n
    8. Narcotics Anonymous should remain forever nonprofessional, but our service centers may\nemploy special workers.<\/li>\n
    9. NA, as such, ought never be organized, but we may create service boards or committees\ndirectly responsible to those they serve.<\/li>\n
    10. Narcotics Anonymous has no opinion on outside issues; hence the NA name ought never be\ndrawn into public controversy.<\/li>\n
    11. Our public relations policy is based on attraction rather than promotion; we need always\nmaintain personal anonymity at the level of press, radio, and films.<\/li>\n
    12. Anonymity is the spiritual foundation of all our traditions, ever reminding us to place\nprinciples before personalities.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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