Narcotics Anonymous Meetings in Tennessee

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 free in cities across the United States, including Tennessee.

NA Meeting in Nashville

Address: 123 Main St, Nashville, TN 37201

• This NA group holds open speaker meetings every Tuesday and Thursday at 7:30 pm.
• The meeting features NA members sharing their personal stories of addiction and recovery.

NA Meeting in Memphis

Address: 456 Oak Rd, Memphis, TN 38104

• This NA group hosts a closed, step-study meeting every Monday at 6:00 pm for those working through the 12 steps.
• The meeting is only open to those recovering from drug addiction.

NA Meeting in Knoxville

Address: 789 Church St, Knoxville, TN 37920

• This NA group holds an open, rotational meeting every Wednesday at 8:00 pm, with a different speaker and topic each week centered around the 12 traditions.

The 12 Steps of NA

Narcotics Anonymous (NA) is a recovery program that provides support for people working to overcome addiction. NA outlines a 12-step process to guide members on their road to recovery:

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 Tennessee

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

Attending Your First Local NA Meeting

NA meetings in Tennessee can be “open” or “closed.” Open meetings welcome anyone to attend, while closed meetings are only for those with 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 marking your sobriety milestones:

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