The Twelve Steps	The Twelve Traditions
1. We admitted that we were powerless over our addiction, that our lives had become unmanageable.	1. Our common welfare should come first; personal recovery depends on NA unity.
2. We came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.	2. For our group purpose there is one ultimate authority: a loving God as He may express himself in our group conscience. Our leaders are but trusted servants; they do not govern.
3. We made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood Him.	3. The only requirement for membership is the desire to stop using.
4. We made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.	4. Each group should be autonomous except in matters affecting NA as a whole.
5. We admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs.	5. Each group has but one primary purpose -- to carry the message to the addict who still suffers.
6. We were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character.	6. An NA group ought never endorse, finance or lend the NA name to any related facility or outside enterprise, lest problems of money, property or prestige divert us from our primary purpose.
7. We humbly asked Him to remove our shortcomings.	7. Every NA group ought to be fully self-supporting, declining outside contributions.
8. We made a list of all persons we had harmed and became willing to make amends to them all.	8. Narcotics Anonymous should remain forever non-professional, but our service centers may employ special workers.
9. We made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others.	9. NA, as such, ought never be organized, but we may create service boards or committees directly responsible to those they serve.
10. We continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it.	10. Narcotics Anonymous has no opinion on outside issues, hence the NA name should never be drawn into public controversy.
11. We sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God as we understood Him, praying only for knowledge of His will for us and the power to carry that out.	11. Our public relations policy is based on attraction rather than promotion; we need always maintain personal anonymity at the level of press, radio, and films.
12. Having had a spiritual awakening as a result of these Steps, we tried to carry this message to addicts and to practice these principles in all our affairs.	12. Anonymity is the spiritual foundation of all our Traditions, ever reminding us to place principles before personalities.