myRecoveryCast

Pete H has been carrying a meeting inside a maximum security prison in the Philadelphia area for 33 years. He shares his experience and introduces us through his stories to a number of men who found recovery and even reached decades clean behind the walls.

In this interview with Jimmy H from Albuquerque, New Mexico, we hear about his efforts to get prisoners, who have found NA behind the walls, out for an afternoon to attend an NA convention. This one is dedicated to all the trusted servants of NA who bring hope to incarcerated addicts the world over, and to those addicts who choose recovery even in the most challenging of circumstances.

This is the second and concluding part of an interview Ron and Dave conducted with Franney J., the Chair of the NA World Board, and Anthony E., the Executive Director of NA World Services. We spoke of translations and how that process works in NA, management of World Conventions, more about conference preparations and some of the new innovations that will come into play at the conference this year.

Ron and Dave sit down with Franny J., the current chair of the NA World Board, and Anthony E., the Executive Director of NAWS for a wide-ranging discussion of issues faced by NAWS and their perspectives on the upcoming World Service Conference.

The second in our NA History series featuring interviews with researchers Boyd and Chris. This episode concentrates on the 1950s and 60s.

An interview with John F, who was a Trustee in the '80s, who shares about getting clean in the '70s and being present at the conference during the passage of the Basic Text, the replacement of Jimmy K with Bob Stone as office manager, and a number of the projects he participated in during the '80s

Two stories: The writing of a history book by the New York Region of NA and the contents of that book, the New York NA history itself.

An interview with Siamak, a member from Iran who found recovery when there was only 1 group in the country and was involved in service during the time of explosive fellowship growth there. He later went on to become a special worker running the NAWS branch office in Tehran. Ron and Dave query him about what happened in Iran, and ask him to share his personal experience of this phenomenon.

A two-part episode: First we hear from Piet from Sweden who visited Iran in 2005 as a World Board member, and then we hear from two current board members who went on their own to a Narcotics Anonymous convention in Iran in October of 2015. Upon their return, we sat down to interview them about the experience.

The first of a number of planned interviews with Boyd and Chris, two researchers with a particular interest in what they call "mutual aid societies" in the recovery field, which includes twelve step fellowships such as NA. In this episode, we explore in some depth the origins of NA going back to the 1940s and 1950s. We discuss the Addicts Anonymous fellowship in Lexington, Kentucky and its relationship to Narcotics Anonymous, both in New York in 1949 and Los Angeles in 1953.