Narcotics Anonymous is a global, community-based organization with a multi-lingual and multicultural membership.

NA was founded in 1953. As of May 2018, Narcotics Anonymous is well established
throughout much of North and South America, Europe, Australia, the Middle East, New Zealand,
and Russia. Groups and NA communities continue to grow and evolve throughout the Indian subcontinent, Africa, and Asia. Today the organization is truly a worldwide multilingual, multicultural fellowship with over 70,000 weekly meetings in 144 countries. Narcotics Anonymous books and information pamphlets are currently available in 55 languages, with translations in process for 16 languages.

We offer recovery from the effects of addiction through working a twelve-step program, including regular attendance at group meetings. The group atmosphere provides help from peers and offers an ongoing support network for addicts who wish to pursue and maintain a drug-free lifestyle.

Our name, Narcotics Anonymous, is not meant to imply a focus on any particular drug; NA’s approach makes no distinction between drugs including alcohol. Membership is free, and we have no affiliation with any organizations outside of NA including governments, religions, law enforcement groups, or medical and psychiatric associations. Through all of our service efforts and our cooperation with others seeking to help addicts, we strive to reach a day when every addict in the world has an opportunity to experience our message of recovery in his or her own language and culture.

If you’d like to learn more about Narcotics Anonymous and our approach to recovery from addiction, we encourage you to browse our literature, which is freely available at https://www.na.org/?ID=ips-eng-index.