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Welcome

Welcome

WELCOME to the website for the Volunteer Region of Narcotics Anonymous. The Volunteer Region serves the groups in the state of Tennessee. Some of our areas also include meetings just over the border in Arkansas, Mississippi, Kentucky, and Virginia.

The PURPOSE of the Volunteer Regional Service Committee, Inc. is to be supportive to an NA region and its primary purpose by associating with areas within the region and helping deal with its situations and needs.

The VRSC services three basic FUNCTIONS:

  1. The primary function of this committee is to unify the AREAS within its region, and to provide help and support to individual areas.
  2. The secondary function of the VRSC is to carry the message of recovery through its various subcommittees.
  3. The third function of the VRSC is to contribute to the growth of, and enhance the quality of Narcotics Anonymous as a whole, by helping support the Volunteer Region.
Call or Text: We’re Here to Help!

Call or Text: We’re Here to Help!

Our Regional Helpline number: 901-350-5030

Text 901-350-5030:
Text a zip code or city to get a list of meetings or
Text “JFT” for the Just For Today reading.
Call 901-350-5030 and enter:

Option 1) to be connected to an area helpline,
Option 2) to get a list of meetings in a city/zip, and
Option 3) to listen to the Just For Today.

If you have questions/problems, please send us an email.

Our Message

Our Message

“Our message is that an addict, any addict, can stop using drugs, lose the desire to use, and find a new way to live. Our message is hope and the promise of freedom.” -Basic Text

Click HERE: Just For Today & SPAD

Click HERE: Just For Today & SPAD

August 27, 2026

Choosing life

Page 249

"Change from self-destructive patterns of life became necessary."

Basic Text, p. 15
Active addiction is a smoldering death-wish. Each of us courted death every time we used. Our lifestyles, too, put us at risk. The life of an addict is sold cheaply with every day and every dose.

In recovery, the first pattern we change is the pattern of using. Staying clean is the start of our journey into life. But our self-destructive behavior usually went far deeper than just our using. Even in recovery, we may still treat ourselves as if we are worthless. When we treat ourselves badly, we feel badly. And when we feel badly, we seek relief--maybe even in our old solution, drugs.

Choosing recovery means choosing life. We decide each day that we want to live and be free. Each time we avoid self-destructive behavior, we choose recovery.

Just for Today: I will choose life by choosing recovery. I will take care of myself.

Copyright (c) 2007-2026, NA World Services, Inc. All Rights Reserved

 

Our Symbol

Our Symbol

Simplicity is the key to our symbol; it imitates the simplicity of our Fellowship. All sorts of occult and esoteric connotations can be found in its simple outlines, but foremost in the minds of the Fellowship are easily understood meanings and relationships.

The outer circle denotes a universal and total program that has room within it for all manifestations of the recovering person.

The square, whose lines are defined, is easily seen and understood, but there are other unseen parts of the symbol. The square base denotes Good will, the ground of both the Fellow-ship and the members of our society. Good will is best exemplified in service; proper service is “Doing the right thing for the right reason.” When Good will supports and motivates both the individual and the Fellowship, we are fully whole and wholly free. Probably the last to be lost to freedom will be the stigma of being an addict.

It is the four pyramid sides that rise from the base in a three-dimensional figure that represent Self, Society, Service, and God. All rise to the point of Freedom. All parts are closely related to the needs and aims of the addict who is seeking recovery, and to the purpose of the Fellowship which is to make recovery avail-able to all. The greater the base, (as we grow in unity in numbers and in fellowship) the broader the sides of the pyramid, and the higher the point of freedom. -Basic Text

Volunteer Region · PO BOX 12053, Murfreesboro, TN 37129 · volunteerregion@gmail.com · 501c3 Tax Exempt
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