My clinical group was told to attend any form of substance abuse meeting. We chose to attend a Narcotics Anonymous meeting. The following defines narcotics, addiction and talks about the overall meeting and my opinions on the meeting. Narcotics are drugs that can depress the central nervous system. Legally they can be used to relieve pain, cause sedation or induce sleep. Illegally they are used for recreational purposes to get a high feeling. Narcotics Anonymous (NA) is a support group for men and women for whom drugs have become a serious problem. Narcotics Anonymous uses a traditional 12-step model that has been expanded and developed for people with various substance abuse problems. The 12 steps of Narcotics Anonymous are as follows: “1. We admitted that we were helpless in the face of our addiction, that our lives had become unmanageable; 2. We have come to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity; 3. We decided to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood Him; 4. We have made a thorough and courageous moral inventory of ourselves; 5. We have admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our mistakes; 6. We were quite ready to have God remove all these defects of character; 7. We humbly asked Him to remove our shortcomings; 8. We made a list of all the people we hurt and decided to make amends to them; 9. We have made direct amends to such people where possible, except when doing so would harm them or others; 10. We continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong we promptly admitted it; 11. We sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God as we understood Him, praying only for knowledge of His... half of the paper... were discussed in that meeting. Instead, he should have redirected them to focus on more appropriate topics related to the meeting. He should have also redirected them when they were talking about other issues related to CIAA events rather than substance abuse/narcotics. In my opinion, she should have been more assertive while leading this group and maybe it would have been a better experience for me. Works CitedAddiction. (2014). Retrieved from http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/addictionNarcotic. (2014). Retrieved from http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/narcotic Twelve Steps of Narcotics Anonymous. (1998). Retrieved from http://www.na.org/admin/include/spaw2/uploads/pdf/handbooks/IGG.pdf Videbeck, S. (2014). Psychiatric-mental nursing. (6th ed., pp. 57-58). Philadelphia: Wolters Kluwer Health | Lippincott Williams & Wilkins.