Narcotics Anonymous Group

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My clinical group was told to sit in on any form of substance abuse meeting. We chose to sit in on a narcotics anonymous meeting. The following defines narcotics, addiction, and talks about the overall meeting and my views of the meeting. Narcotics are drugs that can depress the central nervous system. Legally they may be used to relieve pain, cause sedation, or induce sleep. Illegally they are used for recreational purposes of getting a high feeling. Narcotics anonymous (NA) is a support group for men and women whom drugs have become a major problem. Narcotics anonymous use a traditional 12-step model that has been expanded and developed for people with varied substance abuse issues. The 12-steps of narcotic anonymous are as follows: “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 persons we had harmed, and became willing to make amends to them all; 9. We made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others; 10. We continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong 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 ... ... middle of paper ... ...ave been discussed in that meeting. Instead she should have redirected them to focus on more appropriate topics pertaining to the meeting. She should have also redirected them when they we talking about other issues pertaining to CIAA events rather than substance/narcotics abuse. In my opinion, she should have been more assertive while leading this group and maybe it would have been a better experience for me. Works Cited Addiction. (2014). Retrieved from http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/addiction Narcotic. (2014). Retrieved from http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/narcotic Twelve steps of narcotics anonymous. (1998). Retrieved from http://www.na.org/admin/include/spaw2/uploads/pdf/handbooks/IGG.pdf Videbeck, S. (2014). Psychiatric-mental health nursing. (6th ed., pp. 57-58). Philadelphia: Wolters Kluwer Health | Lippincott Williams & Wilkins.

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