The writings below are for our friends in the public who may have questions about CMA, including a Letter to Anyone New to CMA, For Friends and Family plus CMA FAQs. We also cover the Importance of Anonymity, Anonymity and the Media, plus a letter For The Professional - to request assistance.
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Dear Friend,
Thank you for your interest in Crystal Meth Anonymous. Our web-site navigation system includes links to CMA pamphlets and readings that explain how members of our fellowship used a "12 step program of recovery" and to give a general idea of how CMA works. It is often helpful for the Crystal Meth Addicts to talk with a CMA member, because it may make it easier to understand the nature of our illness, and to accept the help the fellowship of CMA can offer. |
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Crystal Meth Anonymous is a fellowship of men and women who share their experience, strength and hope with each other, so they may solve their common problem and help others to recover from addiction to crystal meth. We cannot offer counseling or suggestions on the situations of family members and loved ones of addicts.
Recognizing that there are limited sources of support for families we offer the resources below for informational purposes. The resources below do not constitute an endorsement of, nor an affiliation with the institutions, programs or resources mentioned. |
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Recognized Member Group Meetings
The local group meetings are the center and heart of the CMA Fellowship. It is, in many ways, a unique type of gathering and one that is likely to seem strange to the newcomer. The questions and answers that follow suggest how a CMA meeting functions and how the newcomer fits into the group picture. |
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The Importance of Anonymity
Traditionally, CMA members have always taken care to preserve their anonymity at the “public” level: press, radio, television, and films.
In the early days of CMA, when more stigmas were attached to the term “tweaker” than is the case today, this reluctance to be identified — and publicized — was easy to understand.
As the Fellowship of CMA grows, the positive value of anonymity soon became apparent.
First, we know from experience that many crystal meth addicts might hesitate to turn to CMA for help if they thought others might discuss their problem publicly, even inadvertently. Newcomers should be able to seek help with assurance that their identities will not be disclosed to anyone outside the Fellowship.
Then, too, we believe that the concept of personal anonymity has a spiritual significance for us — that it discourages the drives for personal recognition, power, prestige, or profit that have caused difficulties in some societies. Much of our relative effectiveness in working with crystal meth addicts might be impaired if we sought or accepted public recognition.
While each member of CMA is free to make his or her own interpretations of CMA Traditions, no individual member is ever recognized as a spokesperson for the Fellowship locally, nationally, or internationally. Each member speaks only for himself or herself.
CMA is indebted to all media for their assistance in strengthening the tradition of anonymity over the years. From time to time, the CMA World Service Office contacts all major media in the United States and Canada, describing this Tradition and asking for cooperation in its observance.
Any CMA member may, for various reasons, “break anonymity” deliberately at the public level. Since this is a matter of individual choice and conscience. The CMA fellowship as a whole obviously has no control over such deviations from this tradition. It is clear, however, that such individuals do not have the approval of the overwhelming majority of members. |
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