Narcotics Anonymous Meetings in Augusta

What is Narcotics Anonymous?

Narcotics Anonymous (NA) is a nonprofit fellowship for people struggling with drug addiction. NA support groups provide a community to help members stay clean through regular group meetings, shared experiences, and embracing spiritual principles.

NA meetings in Augusta and Richmond follow this peer support group model and are open to anyone with a desire to stop using drugs. Here are a few local meeting locations:

Serenity Center

• Mondays, 8:00 pm
• Wednesdays, 7:30 pm
• Fridays, 6:00 pm

Trinity on the Hill United Methodist Church

• Tuesdays, 8:00 pm
• Thursdays, 7:00 pm

Park Avenue United Methodist Church

• Sundays, 6:00 pm

The 12 Steps of NA

Narcotics Anonymous (NA) is a nonprofit fellowship for recovering drug addicts. Below are the 12 steps that serve as its foundation to help members achieve and maintain sobriety:

1. We admitted that we were powerless over our addiction, that our lives had become unmanageable.
2. We came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.
3. We made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God, as we understood Him.
4. We made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.
5. We admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs.
6. We were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character.
7. We humbly asked Him to remove our shortcomings.
8. We made a list of all the people we had harmed and became willing to make amends to them all.
9. We made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when doing so would injure them or others.
10. We continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong, we promptly admitted it.
11. We sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God as we understood Him, praying only for knowledge of His will for us and the power to carry that out.
12. Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to addicts, and to practice these principles in all our affairs.

Getting Started with NA in Augusta

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

Attending Your First Local NA Meeting

NA meetings in Augusta and Richmond, Georgia, can be either “open” or “closed”:

When attending your first local NA meeting:

• Arrive early and introduce yourself as a new member
• Share your experiences if you feel comfortable

Receive welcome keychain tags marking clean time milestones:

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

The most important things are attending regularly and finding support from the NA community. Reach out, share, and listen openly. Recovery takes patience, courage and letting others help.