does narcotics anonymous really work?
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Yes but only if you:\n\n1. Goto meetings (atleast 1 per week or more).\n2. Get a sponser.\n3. Get a phone list and make calls.\n4. Get confortable making a call every day to someone or your sponser weather or not you feel a craving.\n5. Work step 1.\n6. Work step 2.\n7. Work step 3.\n8. Work step 4.\n9. Work step 5.\n10. Work step 6.\n11. Work step 7.\n12. Work step 8.\n13. Work step 9.\n14. Work step 10.\n15. Work step 11.\n16. Work step 12.\n17. Help others by sponsering others.\n18. Continue to go to meetings and help others.
897179
No, If somebody wants to get high they will find a way. Whether it is on OTC, prescription, or illegal drugs, they will find a way. \n\nThere is no need to to not inform people who might benefit, in order to keep people who might misuse information from knowing.
234581
Yes. It scams your ego. There are Who's Who scams for every thing that people do almost. The ones you won't find are Who's Who Homeless or Who's Who Living Simply. In other words, if you do something that makes money for somebody, they want to sell you a book and a certificate to pump money out of your ego.
384993
Yes it works!  I was getting it 3 or 4 times a week at first.  In Nova Scotia it's a free service provided by our government.   I peetered down to once a week and then stopped going.  I had been smoke free for 6 months.  When I stopped going to acupuncture and some stresses at home occured the smoking started again.  I am just resuming the treatments...  hopefully it will work.  My doctor suggested Welbutrin as the best option but it's an anti-depressant and I really don't want to start taking drugs that might alter how I will feel.
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Yes, the people can decriminalize drug use and provide alcohol drug abuse counseling, therapy, housing, medical treatment with educational and employment opportunities for those who are successfully into recovery.\nSound expensive, will we are not talking about just giving drugs out the backdoor. I worked for a non-profit that does a great job with this considerably less money than a profit type company can do, and the non-profit can do it better. \nMost of the Case Managers can be Peer-Counselor with Professional Supervision. \nJust think about all the money we will save if prison space is opened up,  the cost of Policing these problems are lowered, and you can start shutting down the War On Drugs because it is a giant dollar drain. I guarantee the results would be absolutely fantastic. \nIf you don't believe me, get some information on a non-profit named Swords To Plowshares in San Francisco. Ask for the Manager Michael Blecker.
389474
Yes this actually works. I get to work much faster when I use nitro.  I am never late using this technique.
1181985
it works well as a ethnogenic experience and has had some success getting some people people off of heroin. it supposedly worked because the people came to the profound realization that some drugs are harmful
674407
Yup!! It works... the reason is because having someone there makes it better. They give you moral support to go on, and they motivate you when they start seeing changes in u. So when you wanna lash back, you0ve got someone there to push you again!!
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seriously, i believe if you believe it Will work, it will work. for example they give people who volunteer to be test subjects two different things, one group is the control and they get placebo or something while the other group gets the actual drugs. meanwhile, the doctor doesn't tell the patients who has what until the procedure is over, and a lot of people who didn't have the actual experimental drug or what have you would swear they had. just because they believed they had the actual drug, they got better. it's seriously mind over matter, because there would be no experiment if the control group got the placebo and they knew it. it's all a mind game. if you think you are going to get better a lot of time you do!
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Many different areas have different programs to help reduce prostitution.  Some jurisdiction will show the faces of the johns on TV and newspapers.  Others will offer diversion program for the prostitute that include counselling and work training.\n\nIt is all about education and drug addiction.  If the prostitutes have no education and has to support their habits, they will do things for the money.
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Yes. If it is a non-profit debt agency. I signed up with one a few years ago, and it has made a big difference. I am paying off my debt, and everyone is happy.\n\nIf you are real abou this, you will stay true to the program. I feel so much better having done this. I no longer get calls and can live my life normally.
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I myself have not taken it, but a few others that I know that are close to me are taking it currently.  In their opinion, it is working, although it takes a while to kick in for full effectiveness.  Just keep taking it if you've been prescribed it.
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Alcoholics Anonymous people are arrogant? I've always found the people that went through the twelve step program rather humbled by their experience. I'm genuinely surprised by your insight and can offer no explanation, I'm mystified.
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i personally don't think they do enough to keep drugs off the streets. like where I'm from there are young kids as in 12 and13 yr old that walk the street selling drugs their parents even OK it. i think that our police force sucks and are scared to go into "the hood " and do anything about it. sometimes i feel that they just let most of the big dealers get away with it to keep money into the community. i may be way off base but there is something fishy going on. you get the same offenders out on the street all the time. then lets say they catch some small dealer and tell them hey if you narky on the one higher up you can go free and it wont show up on your record, well of course that's what they are gonna do. then that person will probably be the one to step up and become the big guy. they really need to sit and figure out new ways to get these people off the streets. it is killing our kids, and kids parents. i wish there was something i could do to help. good luck, and GOD BLESS YOU!!!!!!!1
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Nope. Jail is not an effective place to get clean, it's a high stress environment with very little in the way of support or education about recovery and in many facilities, it is easier to get dope than on the street.\nThere is a terrific addictions forum at http://www.prisontalk.com where you can get support, feedback and information from others who are also dealing with these issues.\nGood luck
644154
yes the local inter office of the AA i called them about 17 years ago and got sober and they can direct you to a meeting for your drug of choice like cocaine anonymous or ca good luck a drunken doper thats now sober
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Not yet it isn't but there are thoughts of doing so, and the costs will rise year on year. It's been tried in the past already. We will get addicts becoming more dependent. Doctors inundated with work. What if some people pretend to be addicts so that they can get supplies in order to get young children 'hooked' on drugs? What if some Doctors start drug dealing? It is open to all kinds of abuse. Money would be better spent trying to prevent people taking drugs in the first place and getting addicts off drugs.  This is a typical example of what's wrong with this Country. What are we trying to do? Give the Police less work? We want a visible Police Force with more manpower to tackle crime, not a nanny force.