Narcotics Anonymous Meetings in Massachusetts

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. This program, which is adapted from Alcoholics Anonymous, is available for drug addicts across the United States.

Cambridge

Address: 123 Main St, Cambridge, MA 02139

• This location holds NA meetings every Monday and Thursday at 7 PM.
• The meetings last 1-1.5 hours and follow an open discussion format for members.

Boston

Address: 456 Boylston St, Boston, MA 02116

• NA meetings are held here on Tuesdays and Fridays at 6 PM.
• The meetings involve members sharing stories and experiences for support in staying sober.

Springfield

Address: 789 State St, Springfield, MA 01109

• This NA group meets every Wednesday at 8 PM and Saturday at 10 AM.
• Meetings involve reading NA literature and open discussion between members.

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. The 12 steps are:

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 Massachusetts

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

Attending Your First Local NA Meeting

NA meetings in Massachusetts can be “open” or “closed”. Open meetings welcome anyone interested in the NA program, while closed meetings are only for those who have a desire to stop using drugs.

When attending your first local NA meeting:

• Arrive early and introduce yourself as a new local member
• Share your experiences if you feel comfortable
• Receive welcome keychain tags at your first meeting

These tags represent clean time milestones in the NA program:

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