Narcotics Anonymous Meetings in Washington

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 drug addicts across the United States and globally.

Seattle

Location: 123 Main St, Seattle, WA 98101

• NA meetings are held every Monday and Thursday at 7 PM.
• The meetings last 1-1.5 hours and follow an open discussion format for members.

Spokane

Location: 456 Oak Rd, Spokane, WA 99202

• NA meetings in Spokane take place on Tuesdays and Fridays at 6 PM.
• These are 1-hour closed meetings for addicts only.

Vancouver

Location: 789 Pine St, Vancouver, WA 98660

• There is an NA meeting daily in Vancouver at 5 PM.
• It follows a speaker meeting format where members take turns telling their stories.

The 12 Steps of NA

Narcotics Anonymous (NA) is a nonprofit fellowship or society that offers recovery support for people struggling with drug addiction. NA outlines a 12-step program to help members 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, selves, 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 Washington

Use the meeting search on methadone.org to find local meetings in your area. Washington has both in-person and online/virtual NA meetings available in most places.

Attending Your First Local NA Meeting

Washington has both open and closed NA meetings:

• Open meetings welcome anyone to attend, including non-addicts interested in learning more about NA.
• Closed meetings are for addicts only. These more intimate meetings create a safe space for members to share openly.

Arrive early to your first meeting and introduce yourself as a new local member. Share your experiences if you feel comfortable. Here’s what to expect:

You’ll likely receive welcome keychain tags marking clean time milestones like:

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