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October 23 @ 8:00 am - December 19 @ 11:30 pm PDT

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Dec 16

6:00 pm - 8:00 pm PDT

Monthly South Valley ASC Meeting

Community Lutheran Church

3720 E Tropicana Ave.

Las Vegas 89121

Dec 16

6:30 pm - 8:30 pm PDT

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Mountain View Presbyterian Church

8601 Del Webb Blvd

Las Veags 89134

Dec 17

6:30 pm - 7:30 pm PST

Addicts Together 1st & (3rd) week Speaker Meetings

Addicts Together

900 Liberace Ave. Suite A202 (Music Hall on 2nd Floor down from meeting location)

Las Vegas 89109

Dec 18

6:00 pm - 7:00 pm PST

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Just For Today

December 14, 2025

Addiction, drugs, and recovery

Page 364

"Addiction is a physical, mental, and spiritual disease that affects every area of our lives."

Basic Text, p. 20

Before we started using, most of us had a stereotype, a mental image of what addicts were supposed to look like. Some of us pictured a junkie robbing convenience markets for drug money. Others imagined a paranoid recluse peering at life from behind perpetually drawn drapes and locked doors. As long as we didn't fit any of the stereotypes, we thought, we couldn't be addicts.

As our using progressed, we discarded those misconceptions about addiction, only to come up with another: the idea that addiction was about drugs. We may have thought addiction meant a physical habit, believing any drug that didn't produce physical habituation was not "addictive." Or we thought the drugs we took were causing all our problems. We thought that merely getting rid of the drugs would restore sanity to our lives.

One of the most important lessons we learn in Narcotics Anonymous is that addiction is much more than the drugs we used. Addiction is a part of us; it's an illness that involves every area of our lives, with or without drugs. We can see its effects on our thoughts, our feelings, and our behavior, even after we stop using. Because of this, we need a solution that works to repair every area of our lives: the Twelve Steps.

Just for Today: Addiction is not a simple disease, but it has a simple solution. Today, I will live in that solution: the Twelve Steps of recovery.

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