The Narcotics Anonymous commitment to community partnerships

A framework for NA community engagement The Narcotics Anonymous commitment to community partnerships can best be understood within the context of NA’s Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions. Our Twelfth Step for personal recovery encourages every individual NA member to try “to carry [the NA recovery] message to addicts”. Among our Twelve Traditions are certain guiding principles for NA’s engagement, as groups and as an organization, with others in the community: Our mission as an organization is to communicate to addicts in the community that we may be able to help them learn to live drug-free, recover from the effects of drug addiction, and establish stable, productive lifestyles. Our public relations activities strive to attract addicts to Narcotics Anonymous without being overtly or unduly promotional. Our membership is open to anyone who wants to stop using drugs, regardless of the particular drugs they have used. There are no social, religious, economic, racial, ethnic, national, gender, or class-status membership restrictions. We maintain a policy of “cooperation without affiliation” in our interorganizational relations. This policy allows us to work with others in the community without becoming involved in a manner which might distract us from our mission.