Getting Help

Al‑Anon is a mutual support group. Everyone at the meeting shares as an equal. No one is in a position to give advice or direction to anyone else. Everyone at the meeting has experienced a problem with someone else’s drinking. You are free to ask questions or to talk about your situation at your first meeting.  If you’d rather just listen, you can say “I pass,” or explain that you’d just like to listen. Every meeting is different. Each meeting has the autonomy to be run as its members choose, within guidelines designed to promote Al‑Anon unity. Al‑Anon recommends that you try at least six different meetings before you decide if Al‑Anon will be helpful to you.

Narcotics Anonymous is a fellowship of men and women who get together regularly to share their experience, strength and hope. Ours is a spiritual, not religious, program that comes from the 12 steps and 12 traditions of Narcotics Anonymous. Our third tradition states that the only requirement for membership is the desire to stop using. The name “Narcotics Anonymous” does not refer to any particular drug or group of drugs. Our program focuses on addiction, the obsessive compulsive behavior, and recovery from it, not on any specific drug. The only requirement for membership is the desire to stop using.