Committee bats for only-women NA meeting
Source: Chronicle News Service
Imphal, August 01 2022:
Imphal Area Service Committee of Narcotics Anonymous has urged for convening a women's only Narcotics Anonymous (NA) meeting.
Addressing a press meet at the Committee's Sagoband Ingudam Leirak office here on Sunday, PR Sub Committee Narcotics Anonymous Imphal chairperson George Keisham said that NA is a non-profit organisation/fellowship for drugs users, regardless of their age or whether they are men or women.
The only criterion for membership is that the individual must be firm on his/her resolve to give up drug use.
NA is not like with any other group, politics, religion or community and does not need any contribution or authentication or promissory.
However, it has been observed that women addicts seem reluctant to join NA and as such, their recovery rate is low.
On introspection, it has been found that the absence of a women-only NA meeting is a huge factor.
Thus, a women-only NA meeting will be organised once a week on Sunday.
However, the place and time will not be announced publicly due to the prevailing social stigma towards drug addicts, particularly women addicts, he added.
Thus, he appealed to any woman interested to join the meeting to contact the mobile number 9366120877 for detailed information.