
Discover the definitive guide to addiction recovery that has transformed countless lives since 1993. "It Works: How and Why" unpacks NA's 12 Steps and 12 Traditions through collective wisdom, offering a profound roadmap where one addict helping another becomes the ultimate healing power.
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Welcome to "It Works: How and Why," a guide to the principles of recovery used by Narcotics Anonymous. This book is a journey through the Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, designed to help you understand and apply these principles in your own life. As addicts, we have each experienced the pain, loneliness, and despair of addiction. Before coming to NA, many of us tried everything we could think of to control our use of drugs. We tried switching drugs, limiting our use to certain times or places, and even vowed to stop using altogether. But nothing we tried had any lasting effect. Our active addiction continued to progress, overpowering even our best intentions.