Narcotics Anonymous
is an international, community-based association of recovering drug addicts
with more than 28,000 weekly meetings in 113 countries.
Narcotics Anonymous sprang from the Alcoholics Anonymous movement in the
late 1940s, with meetings first sprouting up in the Los Angeles area of
California, USA, in the early fifties. After formally adapting the AA
model in 1953, Narcotics Anonymous started as a small US movement that
today has grown into one of the world's oldest and largest organizations
of its type. For many years, the society grew very slowly, spreading from
Los Angeles to other major North American cities and Australia in the
early 1970s. In 1983, Narcotics Anonymous published its self-titled Basic
Text, spurring tremendous growth, with groups forming rapidly in Brazil,
Colombia, Germany, India, the Irish Republic, Japan, New Zealand, and
the United Kingdom.
Today, Narcotics Anonymous is fairly well established throughout much
of the Americas, Western Europe, Australia, and New Zealand, with newly
formed groups and NA communities scattered through the Indian subcontinent,
Africa, East Asia, the Middle East, and Eastern Europe. Narcotics Anonymous
books and information pamphlets are currently available in 22 languages,
with translations in process for 9 languages.
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