START A MEETING
These suggested formats and commonly used readings will be helpful to anyone looking to start a new meeting of Heroin Anonymous in their area.
For a Free Meeting start-up kit Contact HAWS.
www.heroinanonymous.org/contact/
MORE INFORMATION
A Group is recognized as an H.A. Group if the following conditions are met:
1.) The only requirement for membership is a desire to stop suffering from heroin addiction.
2.) It is fully self-supporting.
3.) Its primary purpose is to carry its message to the heroin addict who still suffers.
4.) It has no outside affiliations.
5.) It has no opinion on outside issues.
6.) Its public relations policy is based on attraction rather than promotion. Its members maintain their personal anonymity at the level of press, radio, television and films.
1. Our common welfare should come first; personal recovery depends upon H.A. unity.
2. For our group purpose there is but one ultimate authority – a loving God as He may express Himself in our group conscience. Our leaders are but trusted servants; they do not govern.
3. The only requirement for H.A. membership is a desire to stop suffering from heroin addiction.
4. Each group should be autonomous except in matters affecting other groups or H.A. as a whole.
5. Each group has but one primary purpose – to carry its message to the heroin addict who still suffers.
6. A H.A. group ought never endorse, finance, or lend the H.A. name to any related facility or outside enterprise, lest problems of money, property, and prestige divert us from our primary purpose.
7. Every H.A. group ought to be fully self-supporting, declining outside contributions.
8. Heroin Anonymous should remain forever nonprofessional, but our service centers may employ special workers.
9. H.A., as such, ought never be organized; but we may create service boards or committees directly responsible to those they serve.
10. Heroin Anonymous has no opinion on outside issues; hence the H.A. name ought never be drawn into public controversy.
11. Our public relations policy is based on attraction rather than promotion; we need always maintain personal anonymity at the level of press, radio, and films.
12. Anonymity is the spiritual foundation of all our traditions, ever reminding us to place principles before personalities.