Narcotics Anonymous
A twelve-step fellowship for people recovering from drug addiction of any kind.
What the fellowship is
Narcotics Anonymous is a global fellowship for recovering addicts. It welcomes anyone who wants to stop using drugs, whatever the drug, because its subject is addiction itself rather than any particular substance.
What members describe
Not a checklist and not a diagnosis — just what people in NA commonly say brought them in.
- Drugs — prescribed, illicit or legal — setting the shape of the day
- Stopping alone, and not staying stopped
- Relationships, money, legal standing or work damaged by using
- Lying, taking or acting against your own values to keep using
- Isolation that deepens the longer it goes on
Your first meeting
NA rooms are among the most varied you will walk into, because the fellowship is organised around addiction rather than a substance. The message is consistent and simple: an addict can stop, lose the desire to use, and find another way to live.
Where 12Gradus fits
12Gradus is software for the sponsor, not a substitute for one and not part of any fellowship. Nothing here is affiliated with or endorsed by Narcotics Anonymous.
A sponsee's profile records that they are in Narcotics Anonymous and dates their clean time from their last use. Daily check-ins, a self-reported urge score, high-risk days noted beside the chart, a rough-moment button that reaches the sponsor immediately, secure chat and a text bridge all work the same in every programme.
The step work is the part that does not. The built-in library is written for Gamblers Anonymous. A sponsor in NA assigns their own materials instead — which works, and is what sponsors have always done, but it is not the same as having NA's own step work in the app.