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N.A. Groups: 1. Are free to offer recovery to any addict (It Works How & Why 151) 2.Are vehicles for the message of recovery (It Works How & Why Pg.151) 3. Reflect the responsibility and commitment of their members. (It Works How & Why Pg.153) 4. Is any group that meets regularly, at a specified place and time, for the purpose of recovery, provided that it follows the Twelve Steps and twelve Traditions of Narcotics Anonymous. (Basic Text Pg.63) 5. Is the most powerful vehicle we have for carrying the message.{see The Message}(Basic Text Pg.65 & Just For Today Pg.374) 6. Any meeting of two or more recovering addicts who meet regularly at a specified time and place for the purpose of recovery from the disease of addiction. (The Group IP No.2 Pg.1) 7. The most powerful vehicle of carrying the message of hope and the promise of freedom from active addiction. (The Group IP No.2 Pg.1) 8. All members of a group are drug addicts, and all drug addicts are eligible for membership; As a group, they are self-supporting; As a group, their single goal is to help drug addicts recover through application of the Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions of Narcotics Anonymous; As a group , they have no affiliation outside Narcotics Anonymous; As a group they express no opinion on outside issues; As a group, their public relations policy is based on attraction rather than promotion. (The Group Booklet revised Pg.2) Home Group: 1. A meeting where you are comfortable and one you will attend regularly. (The Group IP No.2 Pg.2) Closed Meeting: 1. Are only for addicts or those who think they might have a drug problem. (The Group Booklet revised Pg.5) Open Meeting: 1. Open to anyone who wants to attend. (The Group Booklet revised Pg.6)

Narcotics Anonymous: 1. Is a nonprofit fellowship or society of men and woman for whom drugs had become a major problem. (Basic Text Pg.9 ) 2. People who care about desperate, dying addicts and who can , in time teach them how to live without drugs.(Basic Text Pg.77-78) 3. A God-given program (Basic Text Pg.61) 4. The Purpose of the fellowship which is to make recovery available to all.(Basic Text Pg.ix) 5. A fellowship of man and women, addicts meeting in a groups and using a given set of spiritual principles to find a new way of live.(Basic Text Pg.63) 6.Addict who have the desire to stop using and have joined together to do so (Basic text Pg.70) 7. A Fellowship of survival, and one of its advantages is that it places us in intimate, regular contact with the very people who can best understand and help us in our recovery (Basic Text Pg.80) 8. A spiritual, not religious program (Basic Text Pg.87) 9. The Narcotics Anonymous program is spiritual (Basic Text Pg.91 & Just For Today Pg.198) 10. A healthy environment for growth; as a fellowship we love and cherish one another, supporting our new way of life together (Basic Text Pg.97) 11. A new way of life (Basic Text Pg.12) 12. Offers a program of recovery that is more than just a life without drugs (Basic Text Pg.102) 13. Is made up of a vastly diverse assortment of addicts joined together by the strength of their mutual commitment to recovery. (It Works How & Why Pg.153) 14. A simple fellowship using a non professional, addict-to addict approach to the disease of addiction (It Works How & Why Pg.189) 15. Is not a selfish program. In fact, the spirit of the twelve steps is grounded in the principle of selfless service. (It Works Who & Why Pg.117) 16. Is a spiritual program, seeking to connect powerless addicts with a Power greater than themselves. (Just For Today, foreword) 17. Is a fellowship of freedom; we work the program the best way for us, not for someone else. (Just For Today Pg.166) 18. Is not about keeping up appearances. (Just For Today Pg.203) 19. Is a program of recovery for anyone who has the desire to stop using drugs. (Behind The Walls Pg.6) 20. Is a program of action. (Behind The Walls Pg.10) 21. Is a program of attraction, not promotion (Just For Today Pg.368)

Nature: 1. The essential qualities or characteristics by which something is recognized 2. The complex of emotional and intellectual attributes that determine a person's characteristic actions and reactions

Necessary: 1. Absolutely essential 2. Unavoidably determined by prior circumstances

Negative: 1. A reply of denial 2. Characterized by or displaying negation or denial or opposition or resistance; having no positive features 3. Reckoned in a direction opposite to that regarded as positive 4. Expressing or consisting of a negation or refusal or denial 5. Having the quality of something harmful or unpleasant 5. Designed or tending to discredit, especially without positive or helpful suggestions 6. Involving disadvantage or harm

Newcomer: 1. Any new participant in some activity 2. A recent arrival

Niche: 1. A position particularly well suited to the person who occupies it 2. A small concavity 3. A space set back or indented

Nonprofessional: 1. Not professional; not engaged in a profession or engaging in as a profession or for gain

Nonprofit: 1. Not commercially motivated

Nonsense: 1. A message that seems to convey no meaning 2. Having no intelligible meaning

not to be used up or sacrificed