Taken from Welcome to Narcotics Anonymous

At your first meeting, you will meet people with various lengths of clean time. You may wonder how they could remain clean for that period of time. If you keep coming to NA meetings and stay clean, you will come to understand how it works. There is a mutual respect and caring among clean addicts because we’ve all had to overcome the misery of addiction. We love and support each other in our recovery. The program of NA is a set of spiritual principles that help us to remain clean. This fellowship provides an opportunity for us to give you what we have found: a clean way of living. So, welcome! We are glad that you made it here, and hope that you decide to stay.