{"id":9,"date":"2019-11-18T06:10:44","date_gmt":"2019-11-18T06:10:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cenlana.org\/?page_id=9"},"modified":"2023-08-02T15:10:05","modified_gmt":"2023-08-02T15:10:05","slug":"home-cenlana-org","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/cenlana.org\/","title":{"rendered":"Home"},"content":{"rendered":"<!--themify_builder_content-->\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-9\" data-postid=\"9\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-9 themify_builder tf_clear\">\n    \t\t\t\t<!-- module_row -->\n\t\t<div  data-lazy=\"1\" class=\"module_row themify_builder_row tb_an95718 tb_first tf_w tf_clearfix\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"row_inner col_align_top tb_col_count_1 tf_box tf_rel\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div  data-lazy=\"1\" class=\"module_column tb-column col-full tb_491v721 first\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"tb-column-inner tf_box tf_w\">\n\t\t\t\t<!-- module text -->\n<div  class=\"module module-text tb_8pda91   \" data-lazy=\"1\">\n        <div  class=\"tb_text_wrap\">\n    <h1><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Central Louisiana Area of Narcotics Anonymous<\/span><\/h1>\n<p>Welcome to the Central Louisiana Area of Narcotics Anonymous Website. We are a member of the Louisiana Region of Narcotics Anonymous and currently hold meetings in Alexandria and Pineville , Louisiana. We are a group of recovering addicts who meet together regularly to help each other stay clean. The only requirement for membership is the desire to stop using. For a full list of our meetings click <a href=\"https:\/\/cenlana.org\/index.php\/area-meetings\/\">here<\/a>. If you are an Addict or think you might be an Addict and want to do something about it, call our helpline at (318) 542-7557 &#8212; or better yet just come to a meeting!<\/p>\n<h1><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Who Is an Addict?<\/span><\/h1>\n<p>Most of us do not have to think twice about this question. We know! Our whole life and thinking was centered in drugs in one form or another\u2014the getting and using and finding ways and means to get more. We lived to use and used to live. Very simply, an addict is a man or woman whose life is controlled by drugs. We are people in the grip of a continuing and progressive illness whose ends are always the same: jails, institutions, and death.<\/p>\n<h1><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">We do Recover<\/span><\/h1>\n<p>Although \u201cPolitics makes strange bedfellows,\u201d as the old saying goes, addiction makes us one of a kind. Our personal stories may vary in individual pattern but in the end we all have the same thing in common. This common illness or disorder is addiction. We know well the two things that make up true addiction: obsession and compulsion. Obsession\u2014that fixed idea that takes us back time and time again to our particular drug, or some substitute, to recapture the ease and comfort we once knew.<\/p>\n<p>Compulsion\u2014once having started the process with one fix, one pill, or one drink we cannot stop through our own power of will. Because of our physical sensitivity to drugs, we are completely in the grip of a destructive power greater than ourselves.<\/p>\n<p>When at the end of the road we find that we can no longer function as human beings, either with or without drugs, we all face the same dilemma. What is there left to do? There seems to be this alternative: either go on as best we can to the bitter ends\u2014jails, institutions, or death\u2014or find a new way to live. In years gone by, very few addicts ever had this last choice. Those who are addicted today are more fortunate. For the first time in man&#8217;s entire history, a simple way has been proving itself in the lives of many addicts. It is available to us all. 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