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Information about NA (2025)

NA in our community

We have volunteer committees of NA members formed to coordinate many services within our community (Champaign, Urbana, Danville, Hoopeston, Rantoul, and Tilton). NA accepts no financial contributions from non-members, has no professional counselors, and maintains no clinics or residential facilities. Below is a list of services that we offer to the community. Please email request@ppana.org if you would like one of these services.

Community Awareness Meetings are conducted by NA members to inform the community of the existence of Narcotics Anonymous and its available services.

Health Fairs and Conferences are events conducted by professional organizations at which NA can have a display booth and/or present information at a workshop.

Presentations are provided to churches, parole officers, judges, counselors, nurses, doctors, and schools, among others, for information purposes.

Public Service Announcements provide information about NA distributed to the public via the media (press, radio, television, billboards, bus signs, and posters).

Phoneline Services provides local meeting information and general information about NA. Call our phoneline at: (800) 539-0475.

Meeting Lists, which are locally produced schedules that contain times of and locations for meetings in the community. Get the latest meeting information for our area and geographic region.

Services to Hospitals & Institutions are provided by local committees through meetings/presentations to introduce those people attending to some of the basics of the Narcotics Anonymous program. They carry the NA message of recovery to addicts who do not have full access to regular NA meetings. Meetings or presentations are provided to hospitals, jails, addiction treatment facilities, detox centers, and other institutions.

Literature Services include a variety of books, booklets, pamphlets, audio, large-print, and ePub editions. Narcotics Anonymous literature is published in English and several other languages.

Related Institutions and Issues

In order to maintain its focus, Narcotics Anonymous has established a tradition of non-endorsement and does not take positions on anything outside its own specific sphere of activity. Narcotics Anonymous does not express opinions “either pro or con” on civil, social, medical, legal, or religious issues. Additionally, it does not take stands on addiction-related issues such as criminality, law enforcement, drug legalization or penalties, prostitution, HIV/HCV infection, or syringe programs.

Narcotics Anonymous is entirely self-supporting and does not accept financial contributions from non-members. Based on the same principle, groups and service committees are run by NA members, for members.

Narcotics Anonymous neither endorses nor opposes any other organization’s philosophy or methodology. Its primary competence is in providing a platform upon which drug addicts can share their recovery experiences. To remain free of the distraction of controversy, NA focuses all of its energy on its particular area of purpose, leaving other organizations to fulfill their own goals.

Cooperating with Narcotics Anonymous

Although certain traditions guide its relations with other organizations, Narcotics Anonymous welcomes the cooperation of those in government, the clergy, the helping professions, and private voluntary organizations. NA’s nonaddict friends have been instrumental in getting Narcotics Anonymous started in many countries and helping NA grow.

NA strives to cooperate with others interested in Narcotics Anonymous by providing contact information, literature, and information about recovery through the NA Fellowship. Additionally, NA members are often available to make panel presentations in treatment centers and correctional facilities, sharing the NA program with addicts otherwise unable to attend community-based meetings.