Montana Region
of Narcotics Anonymous

Attending at least one Narcotics Anonymous meeting each day for at least the first ninety days of recovery is a good idea—we don’t have to worry about all 90; we just have to make it to a meeting today. Where many of us once spent countless hours supporting our addiction—the getting and using, and finding ways and means to get more—we now take an hour out of our lives each day to save our lives, and then to create lives worth being in recovery for.

Old friends, places, and ideas are often a threat to our recovery. We need to change our playmates, playgrounds and playthings. It can be scary at first, and hard to tell our old associations that we need to take care of ourselves, but we can’t get and stay clean with the people, places, and things that we used with always around.

Our own best ideas got us to the rooms of NA, and we need a sponsor to help us understand and apply the NA program in our lives. We suggest that you look for a Narcotics Anonymous sponsor as soon as you become acquainted with members in your area.

“…get and use telephone numbers…” of clean addicts who are working an NA program in their lives. Call the recovering addicts who seem to have the life you want for yourself. Force yourself out of your comfort zone, and call especially when you don’t feel like it.

Instead of picking up that first drug, we do the following:

• Don’t use, no matter what
• Call a clean addict from the phone list
• Go to a Narcotics Anonymous meeting and share openly about our cravings