What is Cocaine Anonymous?
We are a Fellowship of cocaine addicts who meet together to share our
experience, strength and hope for the purpose of staying sober and
helping others achieve the same freedom. Everything heard at our
meetings is to be treated as confidential. There are no dues or fees of
any kind. To be a member, you only have to want to quit, and show up. We
also exchange phone numbers, and give and seek support from one another
between meetings.
We are all on equal footing here. There are no professional
therapists offering treatment, and no one "runs" the group. Everyone in
these rooms is here because he or she has a desire to stop using
cocaine. We are men and women of all ages, races, and social
backgrounds, with a common bond of affliction. Our program, called the
Twelve Steps of recovery, is gratefully borrowed from Alcoholics
Anonymous, whose more than 50 years of experience with alcoholism
teaches us that the best human help an addict can receive is from
another addict. Some of us may first come to C.A. while in a treatment
program or seeking individual psychotherapy. We say, "fine, do whatever
works for you." We don't pretend to have all the answers, but experience
has taught us that a recovering addict will almost certainly relapse
without the ongoing support of fellow addicts.
We welcome newcomers to C.A. with more genuine warmth and acceptance
in our hearts than you can probably now imagine-for you are the life
blood of our Program. In great part, it is by carrying the message of
recovery to others like ourselves that we keep our own sobriety. We are
all helping ourselves by helping each other.
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