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The
Fellowship of Narcotics Anonymous has come a long way since
our beginnings in 1953. We have grown from our first meeting
in Sun Valley, California, USA, to over 40,000 weekly
meetings in over 125 countries worldwide. Our history is
rich with diversity, and we want to share the facts of that
history with you—the little-known facts along with the
well-known ones. If you have interesting facts and
information about Narcotics Anonymous, send them to us at
naway@na.org or NAWS,
Attn: The NA Way Magazine; PO Box 9999; Van Nuys; CA
91409 USA. |
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the Egyptian Area was formed in 2002, and its
H&I subcommittee is now visiting three correctional
facilities, including one women’s facility that was first
visited in September 2006? |
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the
first NA group in Israel started in Tel Aviv in 1984? Today,
there are approximately 250 meetings per week in more than
thirty Israeli cities. |
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France has a total of seventy-six meetings
per week, forty-one of which are held in Paris? In early
October 2006, more than 520 NA members celebrated France’s
tenth bilingual convention in Chinagora, near Paris. |
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NA members from Belarus, Croatia, Germany,
Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Slovenia, and the United Kingdom
joined members of Region Polska (the Polish Region) at a
convention in Krakow in May 2006? |
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there are two NA Switzerland links at
www.na.org? One is for Italian-speaking South Switzerland,
and the other is a multilingual portal to websites for the
German-, French-,
and Italian-speaking areas of Switzerland.
Most Swiss speak two to four languages. |
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Spain, where NA’s thirty-third world
convention will be held in September 2009, has eight areas
with approximately seventy-two groups and 119 weekly
meetings? |
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in June 2006, approximately 200 members
attended the fourth Northern Greece Area Convention, held at
a camping resort in Halkidiki on the Aegean Sea? |
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the Area Planning Tool has been translated
into Swedish, and members of the Swedish Region have held
workshops on how to use this new tool? |
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the website of the Germanspeaking Region (www.narcotics-anonymous.de)
now includes a new section with historical information about
the region and a collection of posters and other graphic
images depicting the region’s history? Just click on the
“Grafiken” link. |
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in 2006, the NA logo was shown on television
in Turkey for the first time? An NA poster and the logo were
displayed during the primetime news telecast, while two
Turkish NA members provided information by telephone. |
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the fifth Hungarian Convention was held in
Szeged in August 2006, and there are two NA phonelines in
Haungary: one in Pecs and one in Budapest? |
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information for this column was gathered from
regional reports submitted in July 2006 at the European
Delegates Meeting held in Porto, Portugal? |
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