Get support during Drug Awareness Month

NARCOTICS Anonymous (NA) offers free support and guidance on recovery from drug or alcohol problems.

Narcotics Anonymous is a free, non-profit fellowship of people for whom drugs have become a major problem. NA’s program is open to addicts of all ages, nationalities, cultures, creed, gender identity, and religions. The only requirement for membership is a desire to stop using.

Members meet regularly at NA meetings, where they introduce themselves as addicts and try not to focus on specific drugs, but rather on the message of recovery and how to stay clean.

NA meetings all have the same primary purpose – to carry the message of recovery to any addict that may need it. There are no initiation fees, no pledges to sign, no promises to make to anyone.

Meetings vary in length, format and focus areas, and may sometimes be aimed at specific interest groups.

Meetings can be either closed (only members permitted) or open (family and friends are welcome to attend and listen only). NA meetings are often held in accessible, public facilities like church halls, libraries, and community centres, and all meetings are run by recovering addicts who volunteer their time for service.

Narcotics Anonymous does not conduct interventions or drug tests, report on attendance, clean time or behaviour, and does not employ professionals to provide therapy, counselling, or residential facilities to addicts, or the parents, family or friends of addicts.

Meetings are held in and around Durban each week which anyone who feels they want to stop using drugs may join, regardless of which drug was used.

On a Monday, from 6.30pm to 7.30pm, a meeting is held at 161 Monty Naicker Street, St Paul’s Anglican Church, Across road from Durban City Hall and at the same time at 97 Windmill Road, Musgrave.

A meeting is held on Tuesday from 7pm to 8pm at Manning Road Methodist Church, 450 Che Guevara Road and on Wednesday, a meeting is from 7.30pm to 8.30pm at St Thomas Anglican Church, St Thomas Lane, off Stephen Dlamini Road.

On Thursday, a meeting is held in Umbilo at the Greek Orthodox Church, 4 Cavell Place from 7.30pm to 8.30pm and on Friday, there are meetings at St Thomas Anglican Church from 7.30pm to 8.30pm in Musgrave and at the same time at St Anne’s Catholic Church, 585 Randles Road, Sydenham.

A morning meeting is on Saturday from 10am to 11am at Musgrave Methodist Church, St Thomas’ Road and an isiZulu meeting is held at 1.30pm at the Denis Hurley Centre, 2 Cathedral Road, Durban Central.

There is a meeting from 8am to 9am at the Durban Beachfront in front of Mini Town on Sundays, with a 7pm to 8pm meeting at Ethekwini College, Room 125, at 75 Earl Haig Road, Berea.

Contact the NA helpline on 083 900 6962, send a WhatsApp to 079 592 2294 or visit: www.na.org.za/helpline/.

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