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AA / NA meetings whilst intoxicated.

I don't think its a big deal but it really depends on whether or not people really can't tell that he's high. If they have no idea, than by all means do your thing.
I mean there are already tons of people who go to NA and don't wanna be there, who DON'T get high, and those are usually the people who act up. Like the young court ordered kids who are in the back laughing and making noise, or when someone shares something embarassing they start snickering, THATS what use to really piss me off when I went to NA. And I wasn't there to work the steps, but I still had the common sense to not wanna look like complete and utter trash.

But if hes just chilling out not causing a disturbance he's actually doing more for NA than some of the loud mouthed assholes I've seen in the rooms before.

If however he came in everyday wreaking like pot and alcohol I'd prob drag his ass out the front door and spit in his face. To NEO who said its "good to encounter situations that trigger you".. have you ever been to an NA meeting before?

Thats like me going to church to beat off at the alter, or going to GA meeting with a slot machine, perhaps one of the most ignorant statements I've ever heard in my life. There are people in NA with almost no time clean, who DO NOT need to triggered for their "will power". I mean really how assasine is that?
They go to NA meetings in the first place to NOT get triggered, to be away from drugs, and to have a network of people who can support and help them. NA is NOT a place to challenge peoples will power. Recovering addicts will do that when they are READY. Like going to a wedding after accruing some clean time to see how they react to people drinking. But if you walk into an NA room high as a kite and everyone knows it, you are a scum bag. You might as well just walk in with a joint in your hand.

As far as the OP however, I'm not bothered at all because I do believe hes being honest about people not knowing. But as far as challening the "willpower" of people with 2 or 3 days clean, thats just not a well thoughout statement at all.
 
I have been to hundreds of meetings all because I had to cuz I was in rehab or probation and been going through this for 10 years and I am all about my opiates I have been nodding out in meetings there is some I don't even remember. But oddly I find it highly disrespectful to do because there are people there to get better and if that works for them more power to them, but I can't stand them and was always forced into it and being a junkie I gotta be high everyday. But I still think its disrespectful to do, I'm just a jerk.
One thing I do have to say though after my latest trip to rehab at the beginning of the year I will never go back to an AA meeting me and a group of people where actually kicked out of a meeting for calling ourselves addicts, we were all in rehab and all sober. They swore at us and everything, they said "fucking addicts don't belong in here". Now correct me if I'm wrong but isn't alcoholism an addiction? isn't alcohol a drug? That just furthers my hate of the program.
 
Are you kidding me? Kicked you out for saying you're addicts?

That sounds pretty far fetched to believe, I would have most likely got so infuriated I would have crapped on the floor and starting throwing it at people like an angry monkey.

Are you sure you didn't do anything else that just sounds a bit crazy?
 
In meetings around here there is usually some person itching and nodding out. Nobody ever says anything. In fact everyone seems to just ignore it. A couple weeks back there was some younger 19? girl nodding out on dope the sun was setting in the windows and man oh man did I have the urge to get some dope. I was thinking in my head, maybe when we get outside I will just ask her what she took and she might have some in her pocket. I didn't bother though but did entertain the idea in my head a little longer than normal.

Whatever.

peace.
seedless
 
Some of the older AA members do have a problem with people identifying as addicts at a meeting. I've seen people identify themselves at a discussion meeting and the chair person told them they had to be an alcohol if they were going to stay.

I don't understand the separation between alcohol/drugs, there is no difference. I can crush a pill and drink it like a beverage but that doesn't make it any less of a drug.
 
I've been thinking about going to some NA meetings in my area, but only because I DO have a desire to stop using drugs. I don't know that it would piss me off terribly if people came in high, I mean no one is perfect and maybe they are trying to get something out of it. But I would never attend the meetings high on anything, except for a cup of coffee :\
 
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