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YOUR AT A NA MEETING WITH THE CLARITY/IDENTITY STATEMENT IN THE FORMAT,,, In Narcotics Anonymous, we are presented with a dilemma. When NA members identify themselves as "addicts and alcoholics," "cross-addicted," or talk about living "clean and sober," the clarity of the NA message is blurred. To speak in this manner suggests that there are two diseases; that one drug is separate from the rest. Narcotics Anonymous makes no distinction between drugs. Our identification as addicts is all-inclusive, allowing us to concentrate on our similarities, not our differences.

ITS YOUR TURN TO READ,,.UP COMES ONE OF THESE PHRASES/WORDS,,NA,,BASIC TEXT,5th EDITION,,,,PG.189,,DRINKING ALCOHOL,,PG.174,,ALCOHOLICS,,PG.130,,I DRANK,DROPPED,,SNORTED,,SMOKED,,AND SNIFFED,,PG.133,,DRUGS AND ALCOHOL,,PG.129,VODKA,PG.150,131,GETTING LOADED,,PG.135,ADDICTS AND ALCOHOLICS,,CLEAN AND DRY,,HAPPY AND SOBER,,PG,141,,,USEING PILLS,,PG 127,,JUNKIES,DOPEFIENDS,PILL HEADS,,COKEFREAKS,,,,,PG.133,,JUNKIE AND A JUICER,,HERE IS A GOOD ONE,,PG. 162,,I BECAME SOBER AND CLEAN,,
YOU ARE PRESENTED WITH A DILEMMA,,,WHAT DO YOU DO??
A.,,,,,,,,,,,,PASS AND HOPE SOME ONE ELSE STARTS TO READ/?
B.,,,,,,,,,,,,,START TO MUMBLE SO THEY CANT UNDERSTAND WHAT YOU ARE SAYING?
C.,,,,,,,,,,,,,CHANGE THE RINGER ON YOUR CELL PHONE SO IT RINGS AND WALK OUT OF THE ROOM/???
D.,,,,,,,,,,,,,SHOVE YOUR FINGER DOWN YOUR THROAT AND THROW UP ON THE FLOOR,,
E.,,,,,,,,,,,,,SQUEEZE OUT A FART AND RUN TO THE BATHROOM??
F.,,,,,,,,,,,,,,CLOSE THE BOOK AND SAY TO THE GROUP,,THE NA TEXT IS FULL OF PHRASES AND WORDS THAT THE GROUP SUGGESTS WE DO NOT USE,,WHY DOES THIS NA GROUP SUGGEST WE DO NOT USE THESE WORDS/PHRASES WHEN NA APPROVED THESE WORDS/PHRASES??