Narcotics Anonymous

Just For Today - Daily Email Service

   January 28                                             An every-day addict

      "We can never fully recover, no matter how long we stay clean."

                                                            Basic Text, p. 84

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   After getting a little time in the program, some of us begin to think we
   have been cured.  We've learned everything NA has to teach us;  we've
   grown bored with the meetings; and our sponsor keeps droning the same old
   refrain:  "The steps-the steps-the steps!"  We decide it is time
   to get on with our lives, cut way back on meetings, and try to make up for
   the years we have lost to active addiction.  We do this, however, at the
   peril of our recovery.

   Those of us who have relapsed after such an episode often try to go to as
   many meetings as we can-some of us go to a meeting every day for several
   years.  It may take that long for us to understand that we will always be
   addicts.  We may feel well some days and sick on other days, but we are
   addicts every day.   At any time, we are subject to delusion, denial,
   rationalization, justification, insanity-all the hallmarks of  the
   typical addict's way of thinking.   If we want to continue living and
   enjoying life without the use of drugs, we must practice an active program
   of recovery each day.

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   Just for today:  I am an addict every day, but today I have the choice to
   be a recovering addict.  I will make that choice by practicing my program.