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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

1. BASIC NA 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: Gauteng KwaZulu-Natal Western Cape 1.1 Gauteng area Individuals may find literature at most group meetings > Group representatives or anyone interested may find literature by: Going to the monthly Gauteng ASC meeting > Ordering directly from the NA World Service Office >   1.2 KwaZulu-Natal area Individuals may find literature at most group meetings > Group representatives or anyone interested may find literature by: Going to the monthly KZN ASC meeting > KZN Literature price list ("Dec. 2006"/May 2007?) > (Word – 39 KB) Ordering directly from the NA World Service Office >   1.3 Western Cape area Individuals may find literature at most group meetings > Group representatives or anyone interested may find literature by: Going to the monthly WC ASC meeting > Please e-mail order forms to ct-lit@na.org.za (by 12 noon), before ASC to confirm pricing and availability. Order form > (Excel) Going to the monthly Literature Shop: The second Saturday of every month Time: 6:30 - 7:30 pm Venue: the Observatory Community Centre, Lower Main Rd, Observatory, Cape Town For further information please e-mail or visit the Literature committees Page By ordering directly from the NA World Service Office >>

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)

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

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

• JFT online & daily e-mails >

2.4 Service handbooks on the Web

(NA members' interest only)

All available handbooks online >

• Public Relations Handbook > (PDF – 1.3 MB)
• H&I Handbook > (PDF – 547 KB)
  • Mock Panel Tape, Side A > (mp3 – warning: 30 MB!)
  • Mock Panel Tape, Side B > (mp3 – warning: 30 MB!)
• Institutional Group Guide > (PDF – 203 KB)
• A Guide to Local Services in Narcotics Anonymous > (PDF – 1 MB)
• A Guide to World Services in Narcotics Anonymous 2008-2010 > (PDF – 706 KB)
• Group Treasurer's Workbook > (PDF – 236 KB)

2.5 NA Way magazine on the Web

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

New: Oct 2011 > (PDF*, 10MB)

Past issues and e-mail subscriptions >

South Africa-related issues

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

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.

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

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.

Gauteng Area Convention 2007 shares: MP3's

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)

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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)

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 Get the approval draft of Living Clean – The Journey Continues

The approval draft of the book "Living Clean: The Journey Continues" is now available. The book has been in development since the adoption of the project plan at WSC 2008. 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

2011 Membership survey

The 2011 membership survey is available online.