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Narcotics Anonymous Literature

Links to areas below:

  1. Basic literature
  2. Basic literature & bulletins on the Web
  3. MP3's & audio CD's
  4. Local newsletters
  5. Contribute or review
  6. Other

LATEST changes below: WC literature order form; NA Way magazine Jan. ed.; WC Bookshop time.

 

 

1. BASIC NA LITERATURE

Narcotics Anonymous literature

Publications on our experience of recovery from addiction are available at many group meetings as:

  • The White Booklet
  • The Basic Text ("The Blue Book")
  • Just For Today
  • It Works – How and Why ("Green & Gold")
  • The Step Working Guide ("Large Green & Gold")
  • The Sponsorship book
  • Pamphlets in South African languages:
    Official Afrikaans, isiZulu, Sesotho, Setswana & isiXhosa translations >
  • ... and various information pamphlets.

Also available are meetings lists, group meeting preambles, service manuals for NA members, and accessories such as key rings, CDs, etc.

 

Links to areas below:

  1. Gauteng
  2. KwaZulu-Natal
  3. Western Cape

1.1 Gauteng area

 

1.2 KwaZulu-Natal area

 

1.3 Western Cape area

 

 

2. LITERATURE ON THE WEB

Links to areas below:

  1. Books, booklets, pamphlets & group readings
  2. Local languages
  3. Just For Today
  4. Service handbooks
  5. NA Way magazine
  6. Reaching Out newsletter
  7. NAWS News
  8. NAWS bulletins

2.1 Books, booklets, pamphlets and group readings on the Web (updated)

Narcotics Anonymous online books, information pamphlets, booklets and group readings

Large print editions of the NA Basic Text (Blue Book) and It Works: How and Why, and all the NA Information Pamphlets (IP's), booklets and group readings (preambles) distributed at meetings, are now available for download >

 

 

 

 

 

2.2 "Who, What, How and Why?" pamphlet
in Afrikaans, isiZulu, Sesotho, Setswana and isiXhosa

narcotics Anonymous pamphlets in South African languages

Afrikaans, Sesotho, Setswana, isiXhosa and isiZulu translations of NA's Information Pamphlet #1 are now available, which means more addicts, or people who believe they have a drug problem, in South Africa have a chance to stop using drugs and stay of drugs :-)

Contact us at to order them, or download them from the service area (NA members only).

The official Afrikaans Wie, Wat, Hoe, en Waarom? pamphlet is now for sale at your local meeting (usually free to newcomers) or from your area's literature person, or available as a free download to the public >

 

 

2.3 Just For Today daily meditations

Just For Today Online

 

 

 

 

 

2.4 Service handbooks on the Web

(NA members' interest only)

Service handbooks

All available handbooks online >

 

2.5 NA Way magazine on the Web

Generic NA Way magazine screenshot

NA's quarterly international newsletter, available on the NA World Service (NAWS) website.

January 2010 > (PDF*, 4.5MB)

Past issues and e-mail subscriptions >

 

 

 

 

South Africa-related issues

 

Screenshot of Jan. 2009 issue of The NA Way

January 2009 > (PDF* – size: 4MB)
This issue contains an article by a local member about the fast-growing Hospitals and Institutions support in Johannesburg.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Screenshot of Jan. 2006 issue of The NA Way

January 2006 > (PDF* – size: 1.3 MB)
This issue contains an article by a local member about the history of NA in Johannesburg and South Africa.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2.6 Reaching Out newsletter on the Web

NA's newsletter for addicts in hospitals or institutions, as well as H&I members, available on the NA World Service (NAWS) website.

Reaching Out newsletter for addicts in hospitals or institutions

January 2009 > (PDF* – size: 2.9 MB)

Past issues >

E-mail subscriptions >

 

2.7 NAWS News

NA World Services's (NAWS)'s newsletter – click here >

 

2.8 NAWS Bulletins

NA World Services (NAWS) have posted bulletins that cover a variety of issues – click here >

For more links to bulletins, newsletters and online literature from the NA World Service website, go to our Links page >

 

 

3. MP3's and AUDIO CD'S

Links to areas below:

  1. Local
  2. International

3.1 Local

Click here for the Testimonials page

Individual NA members' talks about how they managed to stop using drugs, recorded at NA Regional and Area Conventions in South Africa, are available on the Personal stories page as MP3's, and from your local Area's literature person/committee as sets of Audio CD's (Please contact your Area literature person/committee to order. Jo'burg NA members may order directly from this page).

Gauteng Area Convention 2007 shares: MP3's | Order CD's (Jo'burg only)

3.2 International

Individual NA members' talks about how they managed to stop using drugs, as well as their accounts of Narcotics Anonymous growth and history, recorded at NA World Conventions.

Speaker CDs and audio files

You can purchase World Convention 2007 speaker CDs or downloadable audio files of the convention sessions here >

ASL Material – WCNA sessions and Little White Book

And for the first time, all of the 32nd World Convention of Narcotics Anonymous main meetings are available in ASL DVDs as well – click here >

As is the Little White Book in ASL in our inventory for the first time – click here >

 

 

4. LOCAL NEWSLETTERS

2009 NA Western Cape area newsletter, Anonymous Ink!, now available. Get it at an NA group meeting, or ask your group's literature person to get it for you. More info for NA members > (Word, size: 24 KB)

Previous newsletters

2002 NA Western Cape area newsletter, Clean Times > (PDF, size: 672 KB)
Click here if you experience problems opening this document.

 

5. CONTRIBUTE / REVIEW LITERATURE

For NA members only.

Links to areas below:

  1. Local languages
  2. Service IP
  3. Youth literature
  4. Living Clean – The Journey Continues
  5. Contribute to anything

 

5.1 Literature in South African languages

(NA members' interest only)

Narcotics Anonymous South African languages translations projects

Help evaluate our local translations.

To help, please e-mail us at (isiZulu, Sesotho, Setswana & isiXhosa) or (Afrikaans). More on the Local Translations Committee page >

For completed translations, see further up this page .

 

5.2 Contribute to the draft Service IP

Service members are invited to contribute to the development of the Draft Service IP.

Initial work has been done in the UK; some work has been done locally on the content and on abbreviating stories. Ideally stories should be replaced with local content. For the web address, e-mail the RSC at .

 

5.3 Contribute to youth literature

If you are an NA member and under 18, please contact with Jonno of Cape Town to help write literature on youth in recovery.

 

5.4 Contribute to Living Clean – The Journey Continues

The 2008 World Service Conference approved a project for a book-length piece of recovery literature with the working title Living Clean. This book will cover a collection of issues we deal with in recovery including topics that have been prioritized in literature surveys going back to 1999, such as grief, relationships, spirituality, and parenting. We have begun work on this book and news about the project will be posted here as it is available. More >

 

5.5 Contribute to anything

"Narcotics Anonymous World Services are requesting names of NA members interested in working on various workgroups.

This could be translations, writing new literature etc. or any workgroups that they might form.

Please pass this on to your areas ASAP.

Please send the details to .

Thank you"

 

6. OTHER

For NA members only.

None.

 

More useful links
  • If you wish to contact NA, follow this link >
  • If you need meeting directories, follow this link >
  • If you would like to hear or read testimonials from individual NA members, follow this link >
  • If you would like to read press reports on NA South Africa, follow this link >