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Formation | 1953 |
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Founder | Jimmy Kinnon |
Type | Mutual help addiction recovery |
Purpose | Twelve-step program |
Headquarters | NA World Service Office Chatsworth, Los Angeles, California, U.S. |
Website | na |
Narcotics Anonymous (NA), founded in 1953, describes itself as a "nonprofit fellowship or society of men and women for whom drugs had become a major problem."[1] Narcotics Anonymous uses a 12-step model developed for people with varied substance use disorders[2] and is the second-largest 12-step organization,[3] after 12-step pioneer Alcoholics Anonymous.
As of May 2018[update] there were more than 70,000 NA meetings in 144 countries.[4]