Narcotics Anonymous Meetings in San Diego, CA

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 through a 12-step program, including:

First Church of San Diego

• Mondays 8:00 pm
• Thursdays 7:00 pm

San Diego Community Center

• Tuesdays 6:00 pm
• Saturdays 9:00 am

Seaside Recreation Building

• Wednesdays 12:00 pm
• Fridays 8:00 pm

The program started in the Los Angeles area in 1953 and has grown to over 70,000 meetings globally. All meetings are free and membership is voluntary. NA helps members learn a new way of life without drugs, while also providing support from others in recovery.

The 12 Steps of NA

Narcotics Anonymous (NA) is a nonprofit fellowship or society of recovering drug addicts whose primary purpose is to help addicts stop using drugs. NA outlines a 12-step plan to achieve and maintain this goal:

1. We admitted we were powerless over our 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 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 to do 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.

NA meetings across San Diego aim to provide support for members to progress through these 12 steps to achieve and maintain sobriety from drug addiction. The organization has helped motivate numerous members toward positive change and recovery.

Getting Started with NA in San Diego

Use the meeting search on Methadone.org to find local meetings in the San Diego area. Both in-person and online/virtual meetings are available.

Attending Your First Local NA Meeting

NA meetings in San Diego can be “open” or “closed.” Open meetings welcome anyone interested in the NA program, while closed meetings are for addicts only.

Here is an overview of the two main meeting types:

When attending your first meeting:

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

Receive welcome keychain tags marking periods of sobriety such as:

• 30 days
• 60 days
• 1 year

The most important things are attending meetings, connecting with members, and working the program one day at a time. Reach out to local members or NA phone lines if you need meeting info or support. The NA community welcomes you.