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Narcotics Annoymous HLSC 1003 Mitch Jenkins 14 April 2007 The Use of Narcotics Anonymous for Drug Addiction Treatment Admitting "we were powerless over our addiction,
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Mitch Jenkins
14 April 2007
The Use of Narcotics Anonymous for Drug Addiction Treatment
Admitting “we were powerless over our addiction, that our lives had become
unmanageable” is the first of twelve steps in the second largest drug treatment and recovery
program in the United States, Narcotics Anonymous. Narcotics Anonymous is modeled after
Alcohol Anonymous and describes itself as a nonprofit “fellowship or society of men and
women for whom drugs have become a major problem.” While the abuse of certain drugs in the
United States may be declining; the high relapse rate is due largely in part to the lack of
professional treatment and rehabilitation options. Therefore, in my opinion, Narcotics
Anonymous is single handedly the most important, successful, and rewarding part of a drug
addicts recovery process and permanent sobriety.
Research has long shown that the abuse of alcohol, tobacco, and illegal drugs is the single
most serious health problem in the United States. Drug addiction damages the health care
system, troubles the economy, and contributes to the health problems and death of millions of
Americans every year. Substance abuse causes more deaths, illnesses, and disabilities than any
other preventable health condition in the Unites States today. In 1957, The World Health
Organization (WHO) defined drug addiction as “a state of periodic or chronic intoxication
produced by the repeated consumption of a drug characterized by an overpowering desire or
need to continue taking the drug, a tendency to increase the dose, a physical dependence on the
effects of the drug and detrimental effects on the individual and on society.” The extent and
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