Nar-Anon

12 Steps and Traditions

Feb 07, 2000

Twelve Steps of Nar-Anon

1. We admitted we were powerless over the addict, and that our lives have
become unmanageable.

2. Came to believe that a power greater than ourselves could restore us to
sanity.

3. Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we
understood Him.

4. Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.

5. Admitted to God, to ourselves, and another human being the exact nature of
our wrongs.

6. Were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character.

7. Humbly asked Him to remove our shortcomings.

8. Made a list of all persons we had harmed and became willing to make
amends to them all.

9. Made direct amends to such people except when to do so would injure them
or others.

10. Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly
admitted it.

11. Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our concious 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 a result of these Steps, we tried to
carry this message to others and to practice these principals in all our affairs.

The Twelve Traditions



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1. Our common welfare should come first; personal progress for the
greatest number depends on unity.

2. For our group purpose there is but one ultimate authority-a loving
God as He may express Himself in our group conscience. Our leaders
are but trusted servants; they do not govern.

3. The relatives of addicts, when gathered for mutual aid, may call
themselves a Nar-Anon Family Group, provided that as a group,
they have no other affiliation. The only requirement for membership
is that there be a problem of addiction in a relative or friend.

4. Each group should be autonomus except in matters affecting other
Nar-Anon Family Groups, or N.A. as a whole.

5. Each Nar-Anon family group has but one purpose; to help families
of addicts. We do this by practicing the Twelve Steps of Nar-Anon,
ourselves, by encouraging and understanding our addicted relatives,
and by welcoming and giving comfort to families of addicts.

6. Our family groups ought never to endorse, finance or lend our
name to any outside enterprise, lest problems of money, property
and prestige divert us from our primary spiritual aim; but although a
seperate entity, we should always cooperate with Narcotics
Anonymous.

7. Every group ought to be fully self-supporting, declining outside
contributions.

8. Nar-Anon Twelfth Step work should remain forever
non-professional, but our service centers may employ special
workers.

9. Our groups, as such ought never to be organized, but we may
create service boards or committees directly responsible to those they
serve.

10. The Nar-Anon Family Groups have no opinion on outside issues;
hence our name ought never be drawn into public controversy.

11. Our public relations policy is based on attraction rather than
promotion; we need always maintain anonymity at the level of press,
radio and films. We need guard with special care the anonymity of
all N.A. Members.

12. Anonymity is the spiritual foundation of all our traditions, ever
reminding us to place principles above personalities.