This Basic Text is based on an outline derived from our “white book,” Narcotics Anonymous. The first eight chapters are based on the topic headings in the white book and carry the same title.
The NA Basic Text, commonly referred to as the "Blue Book," is the primary text of Narcotics Anonymous. First published in 1983, it represents the collective experience of recovering addicts and serves as the foundational guide for working the NA program.
A study guide for Narcotics Anonymous' Basic Text, covering the Twelve Steps and Traditions. Aids in understanding and recovery.
Narcotics Anonymous has long recognized the need for a complete text on addiction - a book about addicts, by addicts and for addicts, which would serve us much like the A.A. “Big Book” has served that Fellowship.
Download the Narcotics Anonymous Basic Text PDF for free. Your essential guide to recovery and healing from addiction.
In our meetings, our lives, and our literature, we help each other by sharing our experience and the tools we use to live clean and recover. -Basic Text, page 111. Written by members, our literature offers identification and a message of hope to the still-suffering addict.
You can find a downloadable PDF of the pamphlet as printed by clicking the “View PDF” button above. This booklet is an introduction to the Fellowship of Narcotics Anonymous. It is written for those men and women who, like ourselves, suffer from a seemingly hopeless addiction to drugs.
Mendocino Area Narcotics Anonymous- Downloadable materials including recovery literature, service literature, Area and committee guidelines and more.