Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
Marijuana Anonymous set up in London UK in 2000. [citation needed] Marijuana Anonymous World Services is a non-profit corporation formed to carry out the necessary business and legal affairs of Marijuana Anonymous. Trustees are the officers of MA World Services, as “trusted servants” of the members of MA.
MA – Marijuana Anonymous. NA – Narcotics Anonymous. N/A – Neurotics Anonymous, for recovery from mental and emotional illness. Nar-Anon, for friends and family members of addicts. NicA – Nicotine Anonymous. OA – Overeaters Anonymous. PA – Pills Anonymous, for recovery from prescription pill addiction.
Narcotics Anonymous ( NA ), founded in 1953, describes itself as a "nonprofit fellowship or society of men and women for whom drugs had become a major problem." [1] Narcotics Anonymous uses a 12-step model developed for people with varied substance use disorders [2] and is the second-largest 12-step organization, [3] after 12-step pioneer ...
The International Association for Cannabinoid Medicines ( IACM ), formerly known as the International Association for Cannabis as a Medicine, is a non-profit scientific society founded in Cologne in 2000 [2] [3] and dedicated to the advancement of knowledge of cannabis and cannabinoid medicines among medical professionals.
Twelve-step programs are international mutual aid programs supporting recovery from substance addictions, behavioral addictions and compulsions. Developed in the 1930s, the first twelve-step program, Alcoholics Anonymous (AA), founded by Bill Wilson and Bob Smith, aided its membership to overcome alcoholism. [1]
Cannabis use disorder (CUD), also known as cannabis addiction or marijuana addiction, is a psychiatric disorder defined in the fifth revision of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders and ICD-10 as the continued use of cannabis despite clinically significant impairment.
Recovery programs using Alcoholics Anonymous' twelve steps and twelve traditions either in their original form or by changing only the alcohol-specific references: Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) Emotions Anonymous (EA) Marijuana Anonymous; Sexaholics Anonymous (SA) Overeaters Anonymous (OA) Food Addicts in Recovery Anonymous (FA) GROW
e. Veterans for Medical Cannabis Access ( VMCA ), which was founded as Veterans for Medical Marijuana Access ( VMMA) reflecting the pejorative word "marijuana", is an Elliston, Virginia -based non-profit service organization designed to assist American veterans who wish to be able to use marijuana for medical purposes with a doctor's ...