Narcotics Anonymous Meetings in Stockton

What is Narcotics Anonymous?

Narcotics Anonymous (NA) is a nonprofit fellowship or society of men and women for whom drugs have become a major problem. Members meet regularly to help each other stay clean through a program of complete abstinence from all drugs. This is a program of complete abstinence from all drugs. There is only one requirement for membership, the desire to stop using.

There are several NA meeting locations available for free in the Stockton, San Joaquin, California area:

First Location

• Mondays at 7:00 PM
• Wednesdays at 12:00 PM
• Fridays at 5:30 PM

Second Location

• Tuesdays at 6:00 PM
• Thursdays at 7:30 PM

Third Location

• Saturdays at 10:00 AM
• Sundays at 11:30 AM

The 12 Steps of NA

Narcotics Anonymous (NA) is a nonprofit fellowship or society of men and women for whom drugs have 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 and 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 people we had harmed and became willing to make amends with them all.
9. We made direct amends with 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, we 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 Stockton

Use the meeting search on methadone.org to find local Narcotics Anonymous (NA) meetings in the Stockton, San Joaquin area. Both in-person and online/virtual meetings are available.

Attending Your First Local NA Meeting

There are two main types of NA meetings in Stockton, San Joaquin:

Arrive early and introduce yourself as a new local member. Share your experiences if you are comfortable. Receive welcome keychain tags at your first meeting to mark milestones in your recovery journey:

• 30 days
• 60 days
• 90 days
• 6 months
• 9 months
• 1 year