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OUR HOPE IS

That no addict seeking recovery need ever die from the horrors of addiction.

OUR MESSAGE IS

That an addict, any addict can stop using drugs, lose the desire to use, and find a new way to live.


N.A. is a non-profit fellowship of recovering addicts who meet regularly to help each other stay clean. There is only one requirement for membership, the desire to stop using.

The Greater Pensacola Area of Narcotics Anonymous serves Escambia, Santa Rosa, & Okaloosa Counties of North West Florida. We have meetings in the following cities: Crestview, Ft. Walton Beach, Gulf Breeze, Milton, Niceville, Pace, Pensacola.


Need help now?

Call our 24 Hour NA Helpline: 850-990-HOPE (4673) to talk to an addict in recovery or get information on upcoming meetings texted your phone.

You can also text your zip code to the helpline to receive meeting information near you.

Find a Meeting

View our online meeting schedule or print a schedule at home to find a meeting near you in the Greater Pensacola Area.

We have NA meetings in Escambia, Santa Rosa, & Okaloosa Counties.

Click here to submit a meeting schedule change.

The H.O.W.L.

The H.O.W.L. is GPANA’s annual spiritual retreat, held the first weekend of October.

Join us as we celebrate the freedoms of recovery surrounded in Honesty, Open-mindedness, Willingness, and Love!


Looking for birthdays and other local events?

Check out our calendar and local events page for more information!

Literature Highlight

Read today’s Spiritual Principle a Day daily meditation or subscribe to receive daily emails.

Read today’s Just For Today daily mediation or subscribe to receive daily emails.

Mental Health in Recovery IP (English, Spanish)

Suggestions for Everyone

DON’T USE no matter what
Ask your Higher Power to keep you clean
Come early and stay late
Get a homegroup
Go to 90 meetings in 90 days
Read NA literature daily
Get and use a sponsor
Work the NA steps with your sponsor
Use the PHONE
KEEP COMING BACK!
IT WORKS IF YOU WORK IT.


Fun in the Sun

F.I.T.S. is the Alabama Northwest Florida Region (ALNWFL) of Narcotics Anonymous annual convention held in April. Find more information here!

Surrender in the Mountains

Surrender in the Mountains is the Alabama Northwest Florida Region (ALNWFL) of Narcotics Anonymous annual spiritual retreat held in September. Find more information here!

ALNWFL Region of NA

Find more information about meetings, activities, the Regional Service Committee (SRC), and more in the Alabama Northwest Florida Region of Narcotics Anonymous here.


“Addiction is a disease that does not discriminate, and neither does the program of NA… Our members come from every walk of life. We are not contained within political or geographic boundaries, nor are we limited by any individual differences in faith or philosophy. No matter what conflicts are unfolding in the world at large, we aspire to an ideal of unity: Our common welfare should come first. Our text explains that this unity of purpose helps us “to achieve the true spirit of anonymity” where all of us are equal as members of this group. With that as our foundation, we as individual recovering addicts are each able to find our own distinct voice and to sing a song that is uniquely ours.”

Preface to the Basic Text 6th Edition, BT pg xvii & xix

Just For Today

April 01, 2025
Love and addiction
Page 95
"Some of us first saw the effects of addiction on the people closest to us. We were very dependent on them to carry us through life. We felt angry, disappointed, and hurt when they found other interests, friends, and loved ones."
Basic Text, p. 7

Addiction affected every area of our lives. Just as we sought the drug that would make everything alright, so we sought people to fix us. We made impossible demands, driving away those who had anything of worth to offer us. Often, the only people left were those who were themselves too needy to be capable of denying our unrealistic expectations. It's no wonder that we were unable to establish and maintain healthy intimate relationships in our addiction.

Today, in recovery, we've stopped expecting drugs to fix us. If we still expect people to fix us, perhaps it's time to extend our recovery program to our relationships. We begin by admitting we have a problem--that we don't know the first thing about how to have healthy intimate relationships. We seek out members who've had similar problems and have found relief. We talk with them and listen to what they share about this aspect of their recovery. We apply the program to all our affairs, seeking the same kind of freedom in our relationships that we find throughout our recovery.

Just for Today: Loving relationships are within my reach. Today, I will examine the effects of addiction on my relationships so that I can begin seeking recovery.

Spiritual Principle a Day

April 01, 2025
That Energy of Empathy
Page 95
"That wordless language of recognition, belief and faith, which we call empathy, created the atmosphere in which we could feel time, touch reality and recognize spiritual values long lost to many of us."
Basic Text, Chapter 8: We Do Recover

For some of us, our first perceptible encounter with a power greater than ourselves comes in the form of other recovering addicts. We find it in that vibe we feel in the rooms of NA. Many of us pick up on it even before we've taken that leap and given abstinence a try. We sense this energy unlike anything we've experienced elsewhere. One addict described it this way: "I felt oddly connected to these complete strangers and they seemed to know me, to understand, and to genuinely want to help."

Putting this intriguing something into words is difficult at best and runs the risk of becoming quickly outdated since the words to describe it change with the times. To our ear, our predecessors' attempts to explain it may sound pretty trippy today. It's hard to capture the essence of this almost indescribable thing in words. Had our French-speaking members written "We Do Recover," they may have used the phrase "je ne sais quoi," which translates literally to "I don't know what" but signifies something more in its naming of the unnamable. As the Basic Text notes, "The problem with literature is language."

To be sure, the atmosphere of recovery we find in NA is intangible. Maybe it's too cosmic or mystical to pin down in a description that will stand the test of time and translations. Even so, groups and service bodies sometimes find it useful to talk about how we support or create an atmosphere of recovery. Most will identify empathy as a key ingredient.

Perhaps empathy stands out as central to our atmosphere because it's a quality that's been missing in our lives when we get to the rooms. Nevertheless, we recognize and respond to the empathy like it's a long-lost friend. The world has little empathy for using addicts; they haven't been where we've been. NA is different, and thank goodness it is.

I will listen with my heart today and empathize with the struggles and victories of fellow members.