Cocaine Anonymous - Albuquerque, alamogordo, Española and Silver City
CA is not a rehabilitation center. We are a 12 step program of men and women who share their experience, strength, and hope!
12 Steps & 12 Traditions of Cocaine Anonymous
What is Cocaine Anonymous
Cocaine Anonymous is a fellowship of men and women who share their experience, strength and hope with each other that they may solve their common problem and help others to recover from their addiction. The only requirement for membership is a desire to stop using cocaine and all other mind-altering substances. There are no dues or fees for membership; we are fully self supporting through our own contributions. We are not allied with any sect, denomination, politics, organization, or institution. We do not wish to engage in any controversy and we neither endorse nor oppose any causes. Our primary purpose is to stay free from cocaine and all other mind-altering substances, and to help others achieve the same freedom.
ALBUQUERQUE, NM MEETINGS
MONDAY
***SEE FLYER BELOW!***
6:00pm - 7:00pm
MONDAY MADNESS
at
EPC (Endorphin Power Co.)
509 Cardenas Dr. SE
Albuquerque, NM 87108
TUESDAY
6:30pm - 7:30pm
SHIVERING DENIZENS
at
HEIGHTS CLUB
8520 Marble NE
Albuquerque, NM 87110
THURSDAY
7:30pm - 8:30pm
COCAHOLICS
at
HEIGHTS CLUB
8520 Marble NE
Albuquerque, NM 87110
FRIDAY
7:00pm - 8:00pm
TGIF
at
EPC (Endorphin Power Co.)
509 Cardenas Dr. SE
Albuquerque, NM 87108
SUNDAY
2:00pm—3:00pm
No One Left Behind
at
130 Girard NE
(Christian Student Center at UNM
Behind Taco Bell)
Serenity Sisters
4:00 pm—5:00 pm
at
HEIGHTS CLUB
8520 Marble NE
Albuquerque, NM 87110
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SILVER CITY, NM MEETINGS
SUNDAY
2:00 pm—3:00 pm
End of The Line
at
180 Club
1661 Interstate 180
Silver City, NM
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ALAMOGORDO, NM MEETINGS
***Please note, this meeting is currently on hold until the COVID-19 restrictions are lifted. We will update this page when the meetings are available again.***
6:00 pm—7:00 pm
1301 Cuba Ave.
Alamogordo, NM
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ESPANOLA, NM MEETINGS
SATURDAY
6:00pm - 7:00pm
Peaky Blinders
at
919 North Riverside Drive #C
Espanola, NM 87531
WHO IS A COCAINE ADDICT?
Some of us can answer without hesitation, “I am!” Others aren’t so sure. Cocaine Anonymous believes that no one can decide for another whether he or she is addicted. One thing is sure, though: every single one of us has denied being an addict. For months, for years, we who now freely admit that we are cocaine addicts thought that we could control cocaine when in fact it was controlling us.
“I only use on weekends,” or
“It hardly ever interferes with work,” or
“I can quit, it’s only psychologically addicting, right?” or
“I only snort, I don’t base or shoot,” or
“It’s this relationship that’s messing me up.”
Many of us are still perplexed to realize how long we went on, never getting the same high we got at the beginning, yet still insisting, and believing—so distorted was our reality—that we were getting from cocaine what actually always eluded us. We went to any lengths to get away from being ourselves. The lines got fatter; the grams went faster; the week’s stash was all used up today. We found ourselves scraping envelopes and baggies with razor blades, scratching the last flakes from the corners of brown bottles, snorting or smoking any white speck from the floor when we ran out. We, who prided ourselves on our fine-tuned state of mind! Nothing mattered more to us than the straw, the pipe, the needle. Even if it made us feel miserable, we had to have it.
Some of us mixed cocaine with alcohol or other drugs and found temporary relief in the change, but in the end, it only compounded our problems. We tried quitting by ourselves, finally, and managed to do so for periods of time. After a month, we imagined we were in control. We thought our system was cleaned out and we could get the old high again, using half as much. This time, we’d be careful not to go overboard. But we only found ourselves back where we were before, and worse.
We never left the house without using first. We didn’t make love without using. We didn’t talk on the phone without coke. We couldn’t fall asleep; sometimes it seemed we couldn’t even breathe without cocaine. We tried changing jobs, apartments, cities, lovers—believing that our lives were being screwed up by circumstances, places, people. Perhaps we saw a cocaine friend die of respiratory arrest, and still we went on using! But eventually we had to face facts. We had to admit that cocaine was a serious problem in our lives, that we were addicts.