• Alcoholics Anonymous
• Narcotics Anonymous World Services

Alcoholics Anonymous
www.alcoholics-anonymous.org

Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) is a fellowship of men and women who share their experience, strength, and hope with each other that they may solve their common problem and help others to recover from alcoholism. The only requirement for membership is a desire to stop drinking. There are no dues or fees for AA membership; AA is self-supporting through member contributions.

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Narcotics Anonymous World Services
www.na.org

Narcotics Anonymous (NA) is an international, community-based association of recovering drug addicts with more than 31,000 weekly meetings in over 100 countries worldwide. NA sprang from the AA program, with meetings first emerging in the Los Angeles area in the early 1950s, and has grown into one of the world's oldest and largest organizations of its type.

For many years, NA grew very slowly, spreading from Los Angeles to other major North American cities and Australia in the early 1970s. In 1983, NA published its self-titled basic textbook, which contributed to tremendous growth. Within a few years, groups had formed in Brazil, Colombia, Germany, India, the Republic of Ireland, Japan, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom. NA is well established throughout much of the Americas, Western Europe, Australia, and New Zealand. Newly formed groups and NA communities are now scattered throughout the Indian subcontinent, Africa, East Asia, the Middle East, and Eastern Europe. NA books and information pamphlets are currently available in 23 languages, with translations in process for 16 more.