myRecoveryCast

An interview with Ron M, who has made several trips to Africa, Haiti, and many other places around the world doing NA fellowship development work shares stories from his life and his travels.

The second of two episodes on the writing of the Narcotics Anonymous Basic Text

The first of two episodes on the writing of the Narcotics Anonymous Basic Text

We caught up with Greg 7 months into a 1 year trip around the world, hitting meetings and conventions constantly along the way. Greg got clean at 17, and with 33 years clean, is fulfilling a goal he set 10 years ago for his 50th birthday this year.

Interview with William White: author or co-author of over 400 articles and 20 books on the history of addiction treatment and recovery. Bill has performed extensive study on the history and culture of Narcotics Anonymous in the context of his much broader focus and expertise. This interview focuses primarily on that aspect of his work.

This is a story of the original draft of the NA Fellowship's book, Living Clean - The Journey Continues, written in 1983. The draft was given to NA World Services as a completed manuscript, but was eventually published in 2012 in a very different form than the original, which served as source material when the project was undertaken afresh. In this episode we interviewed the original author of that manuscript, now 83 years old with 56 years of recovery.

Interview with Mahmoud from Iran. After Iran has become established as the largest NA community in the world, they began to work with other NA communities through partnerships with NA World Service and the Asia Pacific Form. Mahmud describes these efforts in Afghanistan, and tells some stories about his own personal journey and the journey of the Iranian fellowship.

Tonia is a member who got clean in Greece in the early days of the NA fellowship there. She spoke to us about her recovery journey with an honesty and eloquence that just kept getting deeper and richer as we delved into her experience facing cancer in recovery, and how that experience paralleled the surrender and rebirth of spirit that comes with recovery from addiction.

This is the third episode in our NA History series featuring Boyd and Chris, researchers into the fellowship's history and culture. This episode focuses primarily on the 1970s, and looks at events in the early '80s as well.

An interview with Karin B, who found recovery in Southern California in 1976. She tells of her early recovery at Jimmy K's home group, her long journey of healing with her mother, who had been a holocaust survivor, her career in LA's comedy clubs that took a surprising and inspiring turn, and her life in recovery.