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Most of us can find a meeting on a meeting schedule, get to it, enter and sit down, and hear the spoken message of recovery without a second thought. However, there are some for
whom this is not possible. They need additional help in order to do what most of us take for granted. In other words, they are addicts who, for a number of reasons, have additional needs.
-”Additional Needs Resource Information”, NA World Services, Inc., 2002
What does the term “additional needs” really mean?
Additional needs arise from physical challenges such as blindness, hearing impairment or mobility limitations by the use of a wheelchair. Additional Needs is not limited to these three categories.
Addicts with additional needs may have difficulty with the following: |
• Hearing the spoken message of recovery
• Reading the written message of recovery
• Transportation to meetings
• Accessing meeting spaces or event locations
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The mission of our committee is to help addicts with overcoming these types of difficulties and receive the message of Narcotics Anonymous.
We meet the first Saturday of each month at 12 noon at he TSRSO 322 East 8th Avenue, Homestead, PA 15120
For more info please call Kara S. at 412-952-1161 or email at additionalneeds@verizon.net
The therapeutic value of one addict helping another is without parallel. As with all addicts, when we help an addict with additional needs we help carry the message of NA recovery.
-from IP#26, “Accessibility for Those with Additional Needs”
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If you are a professional and are
looking for more information on the Narcotics Anonymous program, please contact us at:
- Telephone
- 412-391-5247
- Toll Free
- 888-251-2426
- Postal address
- PO Box 423, Homestead PA 15120
- Electronic mail
- Public Information Subcommittee:
pichair@verizon.net
- General Information:
tsrscna@verizon.net
Or you may also wish to visit the
Narcotics Anonymous World Service Inc. web site at
www.na.org |
