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Narcotics Anonymous Summary

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For my community service assignment, I assisted the local Narcotics Anonymous chapter in cleaning out one of their many daily meeting places. Narcotics Anonymous is a global non-profit organization which overviews an extensive drug abuse recovery program which utilizes strict tenets in an overarching support-group style program to facilitate recovery from drug abuse. Narcotics Anonymous has no official leaders and little overall structure, aside from a collection of basic agreed upon texts that are distributed to chapters worldwide, which lay out the basic tenets of the NA program in full for members to follow. Instead, there is one central Narcotics Anonymous organization that organizes annual conventions, distributes organization texts, …show more content…

It is the sponsor’s duty to not only help their sponsee work through the 12 Step Program (which is a part of the program which originated from the organizations sister organization: Alcoholics Anonymous, or as it is more commonly known, AA), which is the primary tool used by Narcotics Anonymous to help recover from drug abuse, but to also be a supporter for their sponsee and talk them through any issues that they may have that might cause them to relapse and return to drug abuse. This system of central organizations, chapters, home-groups, and the sponsorship strongly lean towards the Structural-Functional Theory of Sociology. The Structural-Functional Theory states that society is a complex systems whose parts work together to promote solidarity and stability, such as a bureaucracy or car engine. The multi-layered organizational structure of the Narcotics Anonymous drug recovery program more than fits the criteria for this specific

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