Narcotics Anonymous (NA)ﾀ is an organization that helps people who are addicted to drugs. NA has adapted the Twelve Steps of Alcoholics Anonymous (AA)ﾀ to form its own unique program for overcoming addiction.

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NA grew out of the experiences of two AA members. In 1944 an AA member, known as Houston, recruited a new member who was not only an alcoholic but also an abuser of morphine. The AA program helped the new recruit to overcome his alcohol addiction but not his morphine addiction. The recruit soon wound up as an involuntary patient in a hospital in Lexington, Kentucky. Houston was puzzled that AA could help with alcoholism but not with addiction to other drugs. With the help of a doctor at the Lexington hospital where the recruit was being treated...