Regional NA Hotline (800)925-4186
Public Message from the Rio Grande Region of Narcotics Anonymous
Regarding Coronavirus/Covid-19
In order to comply with state and local emergency orders nearly all NA meetings have temporarily ceased in-person meetings and have begun meeting online to comply with social distancing guidelines. While this is not ideal, we are finding online meetings to still be a vibrant face-to-face connection experience. Online NA meetings are now available 24 hours a day, seven days a week. In addition, there are many phoneline meetings. We are still carrying the message of recovery and just as eager to make our message available to the still suffering addict as ever.
How to find us online
Most meetings are using Zoom, although NA does not endorse or have any opinion on Zoom. The meeting lists on this website provide the ID for the online meeting. For instruction on using Zoom click here Note that you can call into most of these meetings with any phone and hear the meeting.
Our Region has meetings listed in the website below under the “Meetings” tab:
https://riograndena.org/bmlt-tabs
A complete list of national and international Zoom and call-in meetings is available on-line at:
NA Virtual meetings
Also:
https://virtual-na.org/
A list of meetings available by phone for those without internet access or simple phones:
NA phone meetings
How to access free NA literature online
How to access free recovery literature on na.org
For further information please call the Regional NA Hotline (800) 925-4186
Welcome
Rio Grande Region of Narcotics Anonymous serves the state of New Mexico, Durango, CO and El Paso, TX. If you believe you have a drug problem and want help click on the “New to NA” tab for more information. There are currently meetings per week in the Rio Grande Region. Click on “Meetings” above in the navigation menu to find a meeting close to you.
New to NA
NA is a non-profit, non-professional fellowship of addicts helping addicts. It costs nothing to belong. Someone new to our fellowship may call us on our helplines (listed below), or simply attend a meeting. “Open” meetings welcome non-addicts who may attend and observe. “Closed” meetings are only for those looking at their own drug problem. Call us, e-mail anyone listed under “Contact Information” below, or just walk into a meeting. As our literature says, “We are not interested in what or how much you used or who your connections were, what you have done in the past, how much or how little you have, but only in what you want to do about your problem and how we can help.”
For Professionals
Professionals who wish to discuss a relationship of cooperation between themselves and NA in more detail can click the e-mail link under “Contact Us” above and send us an e-mail to the choice that says “Please forward to the appropriate person.” Provide contact information, and you will be contacted by our Public Relations committee, an all-volunteer group of local members whose purpose is to forge just such relationships. More information can be found on na.org
Just For Today
Remorse was one of the feelings that kept us using. We had stumbled our way through active addiction, leaving a trail of heartbreak and devastation too painful to consider. Our remorse was often intensified by our perception that we couldn't do anything about the damage we had caused; there was no way to make it right.
We remove some of the power of remorse when we face it squarely. We begin the Eighth Step by actually making a list of all the people we have harmed. We own our part in our painful past.
But the Eighth Step does not ask us to make right all of our mistakes, merely to become willing to make amends to all those people. As we become willing to clean up the damage we've caused, we acknowledge our readiness to change. We affirm the healing process of recovery.
Remorse is no longer an instrument we use to torture ourselves. Remorse has become a tool we can use to achieve self-forgiveness.