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What is heroin anonymous?
What is heroin anonymous?
Heroin Anonymous is a non-profit fellowship of men and women who have found a solution to heroin addiction. HA is a fellowship of complete abstinence from all drugs and alcohol. We are recovered heroin addicts who meet regularly to help each other stay sober. The only requirement for membership is a desire to stop suffering from heroin addiction. We are not an organization in the conventional sense of the word. There are no dues or fees for HA membership. HA is not allied with any sect, denomination, politics, organization or institution; does not wish to engage in any controversy and neither endorses nor opposes any causes. Our primary purpose is to stay sober and help other heroin addicts to achieve sobriety.
Heroin Anonymous is concerned solely with the personal recovery and continued sobriety of heroin addicts who turn to us for help. We do not provide drug counseling, medical or psychiatric treatment, chemical dependency treatment, or therapy of any form. Our members consist of individuals who have found a better way of life. We have recovered from our heroin addiction and simply wish to offer help to those who suffer. We are fully self-supporting, we accept voluntary contributions from our members for our expenses, and we respectfully decline outside contributions. Our program of recovery was adapted from the program developed by Alcoholics Anonymous in 1935. We use the Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous to learn and apply the Twelve Steps-as done in AA (although we are not affiliated with Alcoholics Anonymous), which involves one heroin addict helping another to achieve freedom from their heroin addiction.
History of Heroin Anonymous
History of Heroin Anonymous
Paul F. and Mike S., two sober heroin addicts, in AA, started Heroin Anonymous on July 28, 2004 in Arizona. The first meeting was held on August 12, 2004 in Pheonix, and since then the fellowship has mushroomed into worldwide fellowship reaching increasing numbers of recovered heroin addicts. The tremendous fact for every one of us is that we have discovered a common solution. We have a way out on which we can absolutely agree, and upon which we can join in brotherly and harmonious action. That is the great news this program offers to those who still suffer from heroin addiction. Many of our friends say this is an augury of a much larger future ahead.
The program reached Long Island, NY in September of 2011, with the first meeting held in Holbrook in Suffolk County. It quickly grew, due to the high number of heroin addicts finding a solution to their problem, in which all other methods have completely failed. These addicts appear to have recovered. This has been the basis of a rapidly growing fellowship. At present, our membership on Long Island is pyramiding at a fast rate.
As of now, upon the total problem of actual and potential heroin addicts in our area, and world, we have only made a scratch. In all probability, we shall never be able to touch more than a fair fraction of the heroin problem in all its ramifications. Upon therapy for the heroin addict, we surely have no monopoly. Yet it is our great hope that all who have yet to find an answer may begin to find one in this program and will join us on the high road to a new freedom.
Give freely of what you find and join us. We shall be with you in the fellowship of the spirit, and you will surely meet some of us as you trudge the road of happy destiny.
-May God bless you and keep you- until then.
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