SCORE-SINGAPORE

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SCORE-SINGAPORE

• Narcotics Anonymous
• In Cooperation with Professionals World-Wide

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For Assistance or Information

• World Service Office, Inc.
• PO Box 9999
• Van Nuys, CA 91409
• tel [phone]
• fax [phone]
• email wso_at_wsoinc.com
• http//www.wsoinc.com

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Framework for NA community engagement

• our primary purpose / mission
• public relations approach of attraction vs
  promotion
• no membership requirements
• regardless of specific drug(s) used, age,
  gender, religion, ethnicity, economics, politics,
  class-status.

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framework/guiding principles (contd)

• Cooperation without affiliation
• We neither endorse nor oppose other organizations
  or approaches
• We dont affiliate our name/ organization with
  other organizations
• We neither provide nor accept outside funding
• We take no position on public issues

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• provide an environment within which drug
  addicts can help one another stop using and find
  a new way to live

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Means of local contact with NA

• NA groups
• open meetings
• closed meetings
• NA service committees
• NA phonelines
• meeting directories
• public information committees

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Meetings started by non-NA members

• Support assistance is welcomed, however 2
  cautions are offered
• Turn meeting over to addicts them-
  selves as soon as possible
• Clarify distinction between meeting
  place/facility and NA

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client/resident interactions

• Twelfth step call
• HI panel
• attendance verification cards
• sponsor
• meeting environment

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potential difficulties

• disease concept
• total abstinence
• some anti-professional sentiment
• spirituality
• if you experience problems with the local
  organization/members ...

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membership silhouette

• 1989 poll
• AGE
• 11 lt 20 years old
• 37 between 20-30
• 48 between 30-45
• 4 gt 45
• GENDER
• 64 male
• 36 female

• 1996 survey
• AGE
• average age 37 years
• GENDER
• 58 male
• 42 female

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membership silhouette (contd)

• 1989 poll
• initial referral
• 47 treatment facility or while incarcerated
• 29 another NA member
• 24 community professional ( e.g., doctor,
  clergy, attorney, judge)

• 1996 survey
• influence for 1st mtg
• 48 treatment facility
• 10 jail or correctional facility
• 51 another NA member
• 20 community professional