Narcotics Anonymous Meetings in Reading

What is Narcotics Anonymous?

Narcotics Anonymous (NA) is a nonprofit fellowship or society of recovering drug addicts whose primary purpose is to help addicts stop using drugs. It’s available for free in cities across the United States, including Reading, Pennsylvania.

NA Meeting Locations and Times in Reading

Reading Central Catholic High School, 301 S 4th St, Reading, PA 19602

• Monday at 7:30 pm (open, speaker)
• Tuesday at 7 pm (open)
• Friday at 7:30 pm (open)

Genesis Church 551 Museum Rd., Reading, PA 19611

• Wednesday at 7 pm (open)
• Saturday at 6:30 pm (open, candlelight)

Reading Hospital 6th and Spruce St, Reading, PA 19611

• Thursday at 7 pm (open)

The 12 Steps of NA

Narcotics Anonymous (NA) is a nonprofit fellowship for people seeking recovery from drug addiction. NA offers a 12-step program outlined below that aims to motivate members toward positive change:

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 people we had harmed and became willing to make amends to 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 Reading

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

Attending Your First Local NA Meeting

NA meetings in Reading, Pennsylvania, can be either “open” or “closed.”

When attending your first NA meeting, arrive early and introduce yourself to the leader or other members as a newcomer. Share your experiences if you feel comfortable, but there is no obligation to speak.

You may receive welcome keychain tags marking various clean time milestones, such as:

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

These tags represent a commitment to staying clean, one day at a time. NA can provide community support through the recovery process.