About

H.A. World Services

About

Heroin Anonymous is a fellowship of men and women who share their experience, strength, and hope with each other that they may solve their common problem and help others to recover from heroin addiction. The only requirement for membership is a desire to stop suffering from heroin addiction. There are no dues or fees for H.A. membership; we are self-supporting through our own contributions. H.A. is not allied with any sect, denomination, politics, organization, or institution; does not engage in any controversy, neither endorses nor opposes any causes. Our primary purpose is to stay sober and help other heroin addicts to achieve sobriety.

Heroin Anonymous is concerned solely with the personal recovery and continued sobriety of heroin addicts who turn to us for help. We do not provide drug counseling, medical treatment, psychiatric treatment, chemical dependency treatment, or therapy of any form. Our members consist of individuals who have found a better way of life. We have recovered from our heroin addiction and simply wish to offer help to those who suffer. We are fully self-supporting, we accept voluntary contributions from our members for our expenses, and we respectfully decline outside contributions. Our program of recovery was adapted from the program developed by Alcoholics Anonymous in 1935. We apply the Twelve Steps as done in A.A. (although we are not affiliated with Alcoholics Anonymous), which involves one heroin addict helping another to achieve freedom from their heroin addiction.

In our Fellowship you will see one heroin addict helping another, freely passing on their experience to the next person who is desperately searching for an answer to their own heroin addiction.

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History of Heroin Anonymous

2004

July 26, 2004

Paul F., a sober heroin addict, in A.A., received a phone call on July 26, 2004 from Mike S., a fellow heroin addict. Mike asked Paul, “How come there is no Heroin Anonymous?” At that moment it was decided to start H.A. so we heroin addicts could have our own fellowship where we could be with others who truly understood our experience with heroin addiction.

July 28, 2004

Paul and Mike located a place for a meeting and began distributing fliers to all of the heroin addicts they knew in the other 12 Step fellowships. They found several sober heroin addicts who were enthusiastic about having their own program.

August 12, 2004

The first H.A. meeting was held on Thursday, August 12, 2004 at the Hope House, a half-way house for alcoholics and addicts located at 316 N. 11th Way in Phoenix, Arizona. Present were Paul F., Mike S, Nancy R., Tom M., David T., Rebekah B., and Mark T.

August 12, 2004

In that first meeting, Paul F. was elected as the Literature Chairperson and he began writing pamphlets and meeting formats for our fellowship.

November 11, 2004

In no time, more and more H.A. meetings were forming and the Phoenix H.A. Intergroup was established on November 11, 2004.

Present

Ever since, H.A. has grown into a fellowship that spans multiple countries. Thousands of heroin addicts have found sobriety, started new meetings in new places, with new ideas and perspectives. International dialogue is taking place via correspondence, and the fellowship is finding its footing and coming to know itself. Our membership represents a fair cross-section of the population, demonstrating the fact that recovery is available to all, and that we have found a way out that works!

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