Narcotics Anonymous Meetings in California

What is Narcotics Anonymous?

Narcotics Anonymous (NA) is a nonprofit fellowship or society of men and women for whom drugs had become a major problem. Members meet regularly to help each other stay clean. This program, which is adapted from Alcoholics Anonymous, is available for drug addicts across the United States.

NA Meeting in Los Angeles

• Address: 123 Main St, Los Angeles, CA 12345
• This NA group holds open speaker meetings daily at 7:00 pm except Tuesdays. The Tuesday meeting features small group discussions instead of a speaker. All meetings last 1 hour and are open to anyone with a drug problem seeking help.

NA Meeting in San Francisco

• Address: 456 Park Ave, San Francisco, CA 12346
• This NA meeting takes place every Monday and Thursday at 6:00 pm. The hour-long meetings use literature study, focusing on NA-approved books and pamphlets. Newcomers are welcome.

NA Meeting in Sacramento

• Address: 789 Oak St, Sacramento, CA 12347 This NA group hosts a 1-hour topic discussion meeting every Wednesday at 8:00 pm. NA members take turns picking discussion topics and leading the meetings.
• Founded in the 1950s, Narcotics Anonymous now hosts over 70,000 meetings globally. NA uses a 12-step program to empower recovering addicts across the world.

The 12 Steps of NA

Narcotics Anonymous (NA) is a nonprofit fellowship or society of men and women for whom drugs had become a major problem. NA members follow a set of guiding principles known as the 12 steps to achieve and maintain addiction recovery:

1. We admitted we were powerless over addiction, that our lives had become unmanageable.
2. We came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.
3. We made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood Him.
4. We made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.
5. We admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs.
6. We were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character.
7. We humbly asked Him to remove our shortcomings.
8. We made a list of all the persons we had harmed and became willing to make amends to them all.
9. We made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when doing so would injure them or others.
10. We continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it.
11. We sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God as we understood Him, praying only for knowledge of His will for us and the power to carry that out.
12. Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to addicts and to practice these principles in all our affairs.

Getting Started with NA in California

Use the meeting search on methadone.org to find local Narcotics Anonymous (NA) meetings in your area of California. Both in-person and online/virtual meetings are available in most places across the state.

Attending Your First Local NA Meeting

NA meetings in California may be “open” or “closed”. Open meetings welcome anyone to attend, while closed meetings are only for those with a desire to stop using drugs. Here’s a table distinguishing the two meeting types:

When attending your first local California NA meeting:

• Arrive early and introduce yourself as a new local member
• Share your experiences if you feel comfortable

Receive welcome keychain tags marking your sobriety milestones:

• 30 days
• 60 days
• 90 days
• 6 months
• 9 months
• 1 year
• 18 months
• Multiple years