Narcotics Anonymous Meetings in Erie

What is Narcotics Anonymous?

Narcotics Anonymous (NA) is a nonprofit fellowship or society of recovering addicts who meet regularly to help each other stay clean. This free program, founded in the 1950s, now has over 70,000 meetings worldwide.

In Erie, Pennsylvania, there are a few NA meeting locations to choose from:

Erie Millcreek and Rrect Club

Address: 12008 West Lake Rd., Lake City, PA 16423

• Meetings Times: Monday at 8:00 pm
• This is an open, discussion-style meeting.

Grace Church

Address: 7300 Grubb Rd., McKean, PA 16426

• Meeting Times: Friday at 7:00 pm
• Closed meeting for addicts only.

Sisters of Saint Joseph Motherhouse

Address: 5031 West Ridge Rd., Erie, PA 16506

• Meeting Times: Saturday at 6:30 pm
• The open meeting format welcomes both addicts and observers.

The 12 Steps of NA

Narcotics Anonymous (NA) is a recovery fellowship that follows 12 steps to help members achieve and maintain abstinence from drug addiction. 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 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 Erie

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

Attending Your First Local NA Meeting

Erie offers both open and closed NA meetings:

To attend your first meeting:

• Arrive early and introduce yourself as a new local member
• Share your experiences if you feel comfortable

Receive welcome keychain tags marking clean time milestones:

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

The NA program offers judgment-free support. Attending meetings helps members strengthen their commitment to recovery through sharing challenges and victories.