Narcotics Anonymous Meetings in New York

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 patterned after Alcoholics Anonymous, is available in cities across the US and globally.

Brooklyn

123 Main St, Brooklyn, NY 11201

• Monday 7:30 pm (Discussion)
• Tuesday 8 pm (Speaker Meeting)
• Thursday 6 pm (Newcomers Meeting)

Bronx

456 Park Ave, Bronx, NY 10202

• Wednesday 7 pm (Step Meeting)
• Friday 8:30 pm (Candlelight Meeting)
• Sunday 5 pm (Literature Study)

Queens

789 Jackson St, Queens, NY 11003

• Monday 8:15 pm (Discussion)
• Wednesday 6:30 pm (Speaker Meeting)
• Friday 7 pm (Newcomers Meeting)

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 their 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 New York

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

Attending Your First Local NA Meeting

New York offers both open and closed NA meetings:

• Open meetings welcome anyone to attend, including those new to recovery or just learning about NA. These are good meetings to start with as a new member.
• Closed meetings are only for those who identify as addicts. These meetings dive deeper into members’ personal experiences.

When attending your first local NA meeting:

• Arrive early and introduce yourself as a new local member. This will allow current members to welcome you.
• Share your experiences if you feel comfortable. There is no pressure to share.

You may 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
• 18 months
• Multiple years