Crystal Meth Anonymous
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Crystal Meth Anonymous is a 12-step program for the recovery of crystal meth addiction. The spiritual principles of the 12-step program guide an individual and also groups to the recovery from addiction. Crystal Meth Anonymous consists of a fellowship of men and women who share in their experiences as well as various strengths and hopes for recovery from addiction. Like other 12-step programs, Crystal Meth Anonymous only requires that members have a desire to stop using methamphetamine in order to become a part of the group.
Crystal Meth Anonymous is not affiliated with any other group or domination, politics or institution. The 12 traditions are followed as a governing rule for Crystal Meth Anonymous in order to maintain anonymity, prevent controversy and support the primary goal of Crystal Meth Anonymous (CMA) which is to help those suffering from crystal meth addiction to overcome their addiction.
How Crystal Meth Anonymous Works
Crystal Meth Anonymous works on the foundation of regular fellowship attendance and meetings where members come together to discuss how they have achieved their sobriety. These meetings also take focus on how individuals who are recovering from crystal meth addiction are staying sober and what outlooks they may have on life with their newfound sobriety.
The 12-step program of recovery is utilized in Crystal Meth Anonymous in which members will have a “spiritual awakening” which is their way of “healing” from the disease of addiction. With the help of other group members, God or a higher power, and their said commitment to not using drugs, individuals in Crystal Meth Anonymous can recover from addiction.
CMA does not provide counseling or suggestions to those suffering from crystal meth addiction. If an individual is looking for counseling or therapy, they can research this further on their own but such suggestions for therapy or counseling are never provided by Crystal Meth Anonymous.
Members of Crystal Meth Anonymous participate in meetings and work with a sponsor to learn the 12-steps of recovery. The sponsor only becomes a sponsor after they have already completed a 12-step recovery program, had a spiritual awakening and are now ready to help others with the process of recovery. The role of the sponsor is to help guide and support the individual as well as to pass their knowledge on to others.
Members of 12-step programs such as Crystal Meth Anonymous focus on how they can stay clean for the long term and prevent future relapse. They understand that recovery from addiction is a life long process and that it may take time to return to their previous condition of health. Over time, the life and perception that an addict has changes for the better and ultimately spiritual and physical healing is assumed.
The 12-Steps of Crystal Meth Anonymous
Like other 12-step programs, CMA groups have also accepted their own slightly modified twelve steps for recovery. The 12-steps of Crystal Meth Anonymous (similar to the 12-steps of Alcoholics Anonymous) are outlined as follows:
- We admitted that we were powerless over crystal meth and our lives had become unmanageable.
- Came to believe that a power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.
- Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of a God of our understanding.
- Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.
- Admitted to God, to ourselves and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs.
- Were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character.
- Humbly asked God to remove our shortcomings.
- Made a list of all persons we had harmed and became willing to make amends to them all.
- Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others.
- Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it.
- Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with a God of our understanding praying only for the knowledge of God’s will for us, and the power to carry that out.
- Having had a spiritual awakening as a result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to crystal meth addicts, and to practice these principles in all of our affairs.
The 12-Concepts of Crystal Meth Anonymous
In addition to encompassing the 12-steps similar to those outlined by Alcoholics Anonymous in the 1930s, Crystal Meth Anonymous also encompasses a set of concepts for the treatment or recovery from methamphetamine addiction. These 12-concepts are far different from those found in other 12-step programs and are as follows:
1. Final responsibility and ultimate authority for CMA world services should always reside in the collective conscience of the Fellowship of CMA as a whole.
2. The General Services Conference of CMA has become, for nearly every practical purpose, the active voice and the effect conscience of the Fellowship in its world affairs.
3. To create and insure effective leadership, we should endow each element of CMA with a traditional “RIGHT OF DECISION,” which allows our trusted servants to decide what matters can be disposed of by themselves and what matters require them to report, consult, or ask for direction.
4. At all responsible levels, we ought to maintain a traditional “RIGHT OF PARTICIPATION,” allowing our trusted servants voting representation in reasonable proportion to the responsibility that each must discharge.
5. Throughout our structure, a traditional “RIGHT OF APPEAL” and a “RIGHT OF PETITION” ought to prevail, thus assuring that minority opinions will be heard and personal grievances will be carefully considered.
6. Although the General Service Conference has the final decision respecting overall matters of general policy and finance, it recognizes that the chief initiative and active responsibility in most of these matters, especially the day to day functioning of CMA’s world services, should be exercised by the Trustees acting together as a Board.
7. The Bylaws of Crystal Meth Anonymous is a legal instrument that fully empowers the Board of Trustees to manage and conduct all of the CMA’s wold services. The Conference Charter itself is NOT a legal document; it relies instead upon the force of tradition and the power of the CMA treasure for its final effectiveness.
8. Our Board of Trustees is the principle planner and administrator of overall policy and finance, as decided by the General Service Conference. It also has custodial oversight of CMA’s separately incorporated services entities, which the Board exercises by its ability to select the executives of these entities.
9. Good service leadership at all levels is indispensable for our future functioning and safety. Primary world service leadership, once exercised by the founders of CMA and the General Service Committee, must necessarily be assumed by the Board of Trustees.
10. Every service responsibility should be matched by an equal service authority, with the scope of such authority well defined.
11. While the Trustees hold responsibility for the administration of CMA’s world services, they should always have the assistance of the best possible committees, staffs, consultants, and if necessary, corporate executives who are not Trustees. Such individuals, whether volunteers or paid employees, should be chosen with care. Serious concern should be given as to how they are selected, what qualifications they possess, and what rights and duties they will have.
12. The General Warranties of CMA’s General Service Conference: In all its proceedings, the General Service Conference shall observe the spirit of the CMA tradition, taking care that it never becomes the seat of perilous wealth or power; that sufficient operating funds and reserve be its prudent financial principle; that it place none of its members in a position of unqualified authority over any of the others; that it reach all important decisions by discussion, vote and, whenever possible, by substantial unanimity; that its actions never be personally punitive nor an incitement to public controversy; and although it may act for the Fellowship of CMA as a whole, it will never perform acts of government, and it will always remain democratic in thought and action like the Fellowship which it serves.
