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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

October 27, 2026

Living in the present

Page 313

"We want to look our past in the face, see it for what it really was, and release it so we can live today."

Basic Text, p. 29
For many of us, the past is like a bad dream. Our lives aren't the same any more, but we still have fleeting, highly charged emotional memories of a really uncomfortable past. The guilt, fear, and anger that once dominated us may spill into our new life, complicating our efforts to change and grow.

The Twelve Steps are the formula that helps us learn to put the past in its place. Through the Fourth and Fifth Steps, we become aware that our old behavior didn't work. We ask a Higher Power to relieve us of our shortcomings in the Sixth and Seventh Steps, and we begin to be relieved of the guilt and fear that plagued us for so many years. In the Eighth and Ninth Steps, by making amends, we demonstrate to others that our lives are changing. We are no longer controlled by the past. Once the past loses its control over us, we are free to find new ways to live, ways that reflect who we truly are.

Just for Today: I don't have to be controlled by my past. I will live this new day as the new person I am becoming.

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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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