Welcome to Midwest Tennessee Area of NA website!

Welcome to Midwest Tennessee Area of NA website!

Find meetings in Jackson, Dyersburg, Camden, Lexington, Milan, Newbern, Paris,Ā Parsons, Savannah, and Union City.Ā Ā The Area currently hasĀ thirteen groups in Ten counties: Benton, Decatur, Dyer, Gibson, Hardin, Henderson, Henry, Madison,Ā Obion, and Weakley.Ā  The Area is a member of Volunteer Region whichĀ servesĀ the state of Tennessee.
Narcotics Anonymous

Narcotics Anonymous

Narcotics Anonymous is a non-profit fellowship

Narcotics Anonymous is a non-profit fellowship or society of thoseĀ whom drugs had become a major problem.Ā Ā NA is a Twelve Step Program.Ā  We are recovering addicts who meet regularly to help each other to stay clean.

Area Service Committee

Area Service Committee

The Area Service Committee (ASC)Ā meets on the last Sunday of eachĀ month, unless otherwise posted on theĀ Announcements Page,Ā at 3 PM at the Jackson-Madison County General Hospital, 620 Skyline Dr,Ā in theĀ “Medical FoundersĀ Conference Room C”.Ā  The ASCĀ has the following sub-committees:Ā  HospitalsĀ & Institutions (H&I), Activities, and Outreach.Ā Click Here for Map to Hospital and How To Get to Meeting Room. H&I is currently carrying meetings to JACOA, Pathways, and Aspel. If you have at least six months clean time, H&I could use your help. Glad your here…Keep Coming Back!!

24 HOUR HOTLINE:Ā  1-866-790-9010

Just For Today

Just For Today

September 13, 2026

Something different

Page 267

"We had to have something different, and we thought we had found it in drugs."

Basic Text, p. 13

Many of us have always felt different from other people. We know we're not unique in feeling that way; we hear many addicts share the same thing. We searched all our lives for something to make us all right, to fix that "different" place inside us, to make us whole and acceptable. Drugs seemed to fill that need.

When we were high, at least we no longer felt the emptiness or the need. There was one drawback: The drugs, which were our solution, quickly became our problem.

Once we gave up the drugs, the sense of emptiness returned. At first we felt despair because we didn't have any solution of our own to that miserable longing. But we were willing to take direction and began to work the steps. As we did, we found what we'd been looking for, that "something different." Today, we believe that our lifelong yearning was primarily for knowledge of a Higher Power; the "something different" we needed was a relationship with a loving God. The steps tell us how to begin that relationship.

Just for Today: My Higher Power is the "something different" that's always been missing in my life. I will use the steps to restore that missing ingredient to my spirit.

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