AA Support Meetings

A.A., or Alcoholics Anonymous, has been helping alcoholics recover for more than 80 years. A.A.'s program of recovery is built on the simple foundation of one alcoholic sharing with another. It doesn’t cost anything to attend A.A. meetings. There are no age or education requirements to participate. Membership is open to anyone who wants to do something about their drinking problem. A.A.’s primary purpose is to help alcoholics to achieve sobriety. From the AA.org website:

"We are people who have discovered and admitted that we cannot control alcohol. We have learned that we must live without it to live normal, happy lives.

"We are not anti-alcohol and we have no wish to reform the world. We are not allied with any group, cause or religious denomination. We welcome new members, but we do not recruit them.

"We do not impose our experience with problem drinking on others, but we do share it when we are asked to do so. We know our own sobriety depends on connecting with other alcoholics."

For information about AA meetings in South Carolina, visit https://www.area62.org/.

NA Support Meetings

(From the narcotics.org website): Originating in Los Angeles, Narcotics Anonymous, or NA, grew quickly and is now a worldwide organization with meetings across North America, South America, Europe, Australia, New Zealand, and the Middle East. More than 70,000 NA meetings occur weekly in 144 countries, and NA literature is available in 55 languages. NA is not restricted to any political or geographic boundaries, nor is it limited to any one faith, dogma, or philosophy.

NA has one mission: to provide a context where people experiencing addiction can help one another stop using drugs and find a new way to live. The only requirement for NA membership is a “desire to stop using drugs.”

The main tenets of NA are based upon three basic features:

• Unity
• Service
• Recovery

The NA program is a set of spiritual principles espoused in the 12 Steps, used to recover from addiction. (https://www.narcotics.com/narcotics-anonymous/narcotics-anonymous-online-meetings/#program).

To find a Narcotics Anonymous meeting in South Carolina, visit the NA website: https://www.narcotics.com/na-meetings/south-carolina/.