Narcotics Anonymous Meetings in Texas

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.

NA Meeting in Austin

• Address: 5701 W Slaughter Ln, Austin, TX 78749
• This location holds open NA meetings every Tuesday at 7:30 PM. The meetings last 90 minutes and follow the standard NA group format with speaker meetings.

NA Meeting in Houston

• Address: 2727 Collingsworth St, Houston, TX 77006
• This location has NA meetings every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday at 8 PM. The meetings are open for anyone to attend and provide a supportive group environment for those recovering from drug addiction.

NA Meeting in Dallas

• Address: 3527 Gilbert Ave, Dallas, TX 75219
• Dallas has daily open NA meetings at this location starting at 7 PM each night and lasting for one hour. The meeting format focuses on the 12 steps and includes small group discussions.

The 12 Steps of NA

Narcotics Anonymous (NA) is a nonprofit fellowship for recovering drug addicts. NA outlines a 12-step program to help addicts achieve and maintain abstinence from mind- and mood-altering substances. The 12 steps are:

1. Admit powerlessness over addiction and that lives have become unmanageable.
2. Come to believe a Power greater than oneself can restore sanity.
3. Make a decision to turn will and lives over to the care of God as understood.
4. Make a searching and fearless moral inventory of selves.
5. Admit to God, ourselves, and other human beings the exact nature of wrongs.
6. Become entirely ready to have God remove all defects of character.
7. Humbly ask God to remove shortcomings.
8. Make a list of all persons harmed and become willing to make amends.
9. Make direct amends to such people whenever possible, except when doing so would injure them or others.
10. Continue to take personal inventory and promptly admit when wrong.
11. Seek through prayer and meditation to improve conscious contact with God as understood, praying only for knowledge of God’s will and the power to carry that out.
12. Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps, try to carry this message to other addicts and practice these principles in all affairs.

Getting Started with NA in Texas

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

Attending Your First Local NA Meeting

NA meetings in Texas may 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 at your first meeting

You may receive tags for clean time milestones like:

• 30 days
• 60 days
• 1 year
• 5 years
• 10 years