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Habit: 1. An established custom 2. A pattern of behavior acquired through frequent repetition 3. Excessive use of drugs

Happen: 1. Come to pass; occur 2. Come into being; become reality 3. Come upon, as if by accident; meet with

Happiness: 1. State of well-being characterized by emotions ranging from contentment to intense joy 2. Emotions experienced when in a state of well-being 3. Is a choice; no one can make us happy. (Just For Today Pg.102) 4. Is what we find in our involvement with Narcotics anonymous. (Just For Today Pg.102)

Harm: 1. Having had pain or loss or suffering inflicted 2. Any physical damage to the body 3. The occurrence of a change for the worse 4. The act of damaging something or someone 5. Cause or do harm to 6. Causing mental anguish, property damage or loss, inflicting long-lasting emotional scars, betraying trust (It Works How & Why Pg.80) 7. Physical or mental damage; inflicting pain, suffering or loss. The damage may be either intentional or unintentional (Basic Text Pg.37)

Harmony: 1. Compatibility in opinion and action 2. The structure of music with respect to the composition and progression of chords 3. A harmonious state; congruity of parts with one another and with the whole 4. Agreement of opinions

Heal: 1..recover 2. Get healthy again 3. Provide a cure for, make healthy again

Healthy: 1. Having or indicating good health in body or mind; free from infirmity or disease 2. Financially secure and functioning well 3. Promoting health; healthful 4. Physically and mentally sound or healthy 5. Exercising or showing good judgment

Heart: 1. The locus of feelings and intuitions 2. The hollow muscular organ whose rhythmic contractions pump blood through the body 3. The courage to carry on 4. An area that is approximately central within some larger region 5. The choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience 6. An inclination or tendency of a certain kind 7. A plane figure with rounded sides curving inward at the top and intersecting at the bottom; conventionally used on playing cards and valentines 8. A positive feeling of liking

Heartily: 1. With gusto and without reservation

Help: 1. The activity of contributing to the fulfillment of a need or furtherance of an effort or purpose 2. A person who contributes to the fulfillment of a need or furtherance of an effort or purpose 3. A resource

Helplessness: 1. Powerlessness revealed by an inability to act 2. The state of needing help from something 3. A feeling of being unable to manage

Hierarchy: 1. A series of ordered groupings of people or things within a system 2. The organization of people at different ranks in an administrative body

Higher: 1. Advanced in complexity or elaboration 2. Greater than normal in degree or intensity or amount

Hindsight: 1. Understanding the nature of an event after it has happened

Hit: 1: (slang) to quote a piece of N.A. literature to support a main idea or deal with a related topic being discussed. 2. A profound statement 3. Indicating something profound is going to be said next (here’s the hit)

Honest: 1. Not disposed to cheat or defraud; not deceptive or fraudulent 2. Worthy of being depended on 3. Habitually speaking the truth

Honest: 1. Not disposed to cheat or defraud; not deceptive or fraudulent 2. Without dissimulation; frank 3. Worthy of being depended on 4. Free from guile 5. Without pretensions 6. Habitually speaking the truth 7. Marked by truth

Honesty: 1. The quality of being honest 2. To examine our behaviors, feelings, thoughts, and motives, regardless of how unimportant they may appear. (Working Step Four in Narcotics Anonymous IP No.10 Pg.1)

Hope: 1. The general feeling that some desire will be fulfilled 2. Someone (or something) on which expectations are centered 3. Expect with desire 3. Intend with some possibility of fulfillment

Hopeless: 1. Without hope because there seems to be no possibility of comfort or success 2. Certain to fail 2. beyond hope of management or reform

Hopelessness: 1. The despair you feel when you have abandoned hope of comfort or success

Horrible: 1. Provoking horror

Horror: 1. Intense and profound fear 2. Intense aversion

Hospitable: 1. Favorable to life and growth 2. Disposed to treat guests and strangers with cordiality and generosity 3. ('hospitable' is usually followed by 'to') having an open mind

Hostage: 1. A prisoner who is held by one party to insure that another party will meet specified terms

Hostility: 1. A state of deep-seated ill-will 2. Violent action that is hostile and usually unprovoked 3. Acts of overt warfare

Hug: 1. A tight embrace 2. usually with fondness

Human: 1. Relating to a person 2. Having human form or attributes as opposed to those of animals or divine beings (see nature)

Humanity: 1. All of the inhabitants of the earth 2. The quality of being humane 3. The quality of being human

Humble: 1. Marked by meekness or modesty: not arrogant or prideful 2. Lower in esteem; hurt the pride of 3. Does not mean we are the lowest form of life; we attain a realistic veiw of ourselves and where we fit in the world. (Just For Today Pg.324)

Humbly: 1. In a humble manner 2. In a miserly manner 3. . Is to accept and honestly try to be ourselves. (Basic Text Pg.35 & Just For Today Pg.346)

Humility: 1. A disposition to be humble; a lack of false pride 2. A humble feeling 3.We have a realistic view of ourselves and our place in the world. (It Works How &Why Pg.69) 4. A result of getting honest with ourselves (Basic Text Pg.35 & Just For Today pg.324) 5. Is the honest assessment of our strengths and weaknesses (It Works How & Why Pg.141) 6. An acceptance of who we truly are- neither worse nor better than we believed we were when we were using, just human. (Step Working Guides Pg.7) 7. We’re able to see ourselves more clearly. (Step Working Guides Pg.55) 8. Is a sense of our own humanness. (Step Working Guides Pg.64) 9. Is a common theme in our Twelve Steps. (Just For Today Pg.203) 10. Means we must admit we cannot recover on our own. (Just For Today Pg.324) 11. To recognize that we can’t control our defects any more than we can control our addiction. We can’t remove our own defects; we can only ask a loving God to remove them. (Just For Today Pg.339) 12. Is simply, acceptance of who we are; Involves accepting our true nature, honestly being ourselves; Simply means we drop all pretense and live as honestly as we can (Just For Today Pg.246)