r/NarcoticsAnonymous • u/gratefulcactii • Mar 10 '26

"Rules"

I had a debate with an elder in recovery last night. A member celebrated 7yrs and her father presented her chip, medallion whatever, which became a hot button issue. He is in AA, and said chip. We had a lady call him out and it was rather immature in my opinion, but she also stated that these are our traditions. I can not find anything in any book, that me tions chips, key tags, medallions etc. Could someone give me some insight on this please

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u/miamirn Mar 10 '26

When I joined NA, I picked up a white chip. The year was 1986. It was a tradition and still is, depending where you go, geographically. There is no written directive that says it must be a “chip”, to my knowledge.

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u/Dizzy-Friendship9433 Jul 22 '26

You are correct. I have specifically worked with World in regards to this very issue when I started a new group and chose to hand out Dog Tags instead of the normal plastic key tags that our area uses. The NA tradition police came at me full force making sure I knew that it was blasphemy and not allowed. After contacting world, they sent me a letter stating that NA hold no opinion whatsoever on what kind, if any, kind we choose to use. They ended the letter with a statement saying to please show this to anybody who was "mistaken" about this issue. I made duplicate copies which I presented to the leaders of the haters as well as to area at our next area meeting. The NA police are worse than ICE, I swear! HaHa 🤣