ALTERNATESERVICEINFORMATIONSTRUCTURE
for Narcotics Anonymous

Mission Statement

The Alternate Service Information Structure for Narcotics Anonymous is a point of collection for the informed group conscience of NA.
-- Purpose --

...While we believe an attempt to reform NA Service from inside the existing structure might be beneficial what we believe to be a more effective strategy is to provide a steady, reliable, non-political, non-combative alternative for directly responsible service...

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1. At A.S.I.S.- NA '07 we unanimously decided that we would collect and therefore 'define' the informed Group Conscience of NA each June at the A.S.I.S - NA conference from questions or motions put forth by NA Groups.

2. We will ask for questions or motions from NA Groups that will be distributed to all member groups (and any groups who subsequently join, as well as members in the process of forming groups). We will do this at the NA History & Traditions Retreat each September, so everyone has an eight month time-frame to decide the question or motion after becoming accurately informed.

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Here are our first two Questions or Motions:
Voted on at 2008 conference

A. - Do the Groups we serve believe that a real Group Conscience means that the group has been objectively, thoroughly, and succinctly informed of the probable consequences of a yes or no vote and has read a simple yet complete and objective argument both to the pro and con of any question to be decided?
RESULT = YES!


B. - Do the Groups we serve believe that direct responsibility means a service board or committee asks first for direction regarding it's policy before performing services?
RESULT = will be re-written for a 2nd vote as all groups but one voted yes: we will strive for Unanimous results

the preceeding questions require a simple YES or NO answer

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Here is some Background on ASIS

WHY - WHY - WHY

Here's the Why of AnonymiFoundation.org website and all A.S.I.S. for NA activities