Narcotics Anonymous Meetings in Florida

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, including multiple meetings held regularly across cities in Florida.

Orlando

• Monday – 8:00 pm (Discussion)
• Tuesday – 8:00 pm (Speaker)
• Thursday – 8:00 pm (Literature Study)
• Saturday – 6:30 pm (Speaker)

Miami

• Monday – 7:00 pm (Step Meeting)
• Wednesday – 8:00 pm (Speaker)
• Friday – 8:00 pm (Literature)

Tampa

• Sunday – 6:00 pm (Beginners)
• Tuesday – 7:00 pm (Discussion)
• Thursday – 8:00 pm (Speaker)

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 guide members on the path to recovery:

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 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 Florida

Use the meeting search on methadone.org to find local meetings in your area. Both in-person and online/virtual meetings are available in most places across Florida.

Attending Your First Local NA Meeting

There are two main types of NA meetings in Florida:

Arrive 10-15 minutes early and introduce yourself to the leader or members as a new local member. Share your experiences if you feel comfortable. You may receive welcome keychain tags at your first meeting to mark milestones in your recovery:

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