Crystal Meth Anonymous (CMA) Meetings

General Crystal Meth Anonymous (CMA) Meeting Information

With 1,000’s of CMA meetings being held around the world every day, it’s easy for you to find live meetings and online meetings with people from your local community in attendance. If you are in a treatment center, they will have meetings and may also provide transportation to and from meetings. Many meetings have childcare, to ensure mothers and fathers can attend meetings also.

Meetings for Crystal Meth Anonymous and are most often held in public places like churches, community centers, club houses and parks. During the COVID pandemic, many of your local CMA meetings are still being held on the same day and time as before, but have transitioned to an online platform like Zoom. While CMA groups do not affiliate themselves with any particular religion, they are spiritual in nature, with a goal of being a safe place for people with Crystal Meth, drug and alcohol problems to meet, share their experience, strength and hope with each other, and take the 12 steps of Crystal Meth Anonymous to rid yourself of your Crystal Meth use, clean up any wreckage you may have caused and heal yourself. The 12 steps of Crystal Meth Anonymous are specifically designed to help suffering Crystal Meth addicts rebuild their lives.

Types of Crystal Meth Anonymous (CMA) Meetings

As a general rule, there are two standard types of Crystal Meth Anonymous (CMA) meetings: open meetings and closed meetings. An open CMA meeting is open to anyone who wishes to attend, including people suffering from addiction, friends, family members, students, members of the community, observers, first responders, treatment providers and more. Closed CMA meetings are for individuals suffering from Crystal Meth addiction, who identify as an addict, and/or have a desire to stop using.

Open and closed Crystal Meth Anonymous (CMA) meetings often follow various formats including:

• Discussion CMA Meetings: Possibly the most common meeting format, the chairperson or leader of the meeting will choose a topic to discuss during the meeting. These meetings may be open or closed.
• Beginner CMA Meetings: These meetings are led by a veteran member who has been Crystal Meth Anonymous (CMA) for a long period of time and may follow a variety of formats (discussion, topic, book, literature, step, etc.), while focusing on the first three of the 12 Steps of Crystal Meth Anonymous (CMA), or it may be more of a question-and-answer type format.
• Speaker CMA Meetings: CMA members who have been sober for a minimum period of time may be chosen beforehand to share their past experiences and how working through “The Program,” as CMA’s 12 Steps and Traditions may be referred to, has helped them get to where they are today. These CMA meetings are often open to the public, many are recorded, so you can listen to your favorite Crystal Meth Anonymous (CMA) Speakers any time you want.
• Book, Step, Tradition or Literature CMA Meetings: A reading from various CMA Literature is read, shared on and worked through during the meeting. These CMA meetings are usually held in a rotation as the CMA Steps, Traditions, Book or Literature are worked through. Individuals may use workbooks and texts during the CMA meeting or for homework assignments.
• Service CMA Meetings: These may be information meetings about CMA service opportunities within the group or CMA as a whole. Often times reports on CMA service activities the CMA group has performed are often provided.
• Group Inventory CMA Meetings: CMA members work to determine if the particular CMA group is fulfilling its primary purpose and functioning effectively.
• Business CMA Meetings: Generally, Crystal Meth Anonymous (CMA) business meetings are for the CMA members involved in the business aspects of the CMA group. They may also include the CMA group electing officers or other CMA group business needs.

People can attend as many Crystal Meth Anonymous (CMA) meetings as the want and are often encouraged to attend a number of meetings until they find a meeting or set of meetings they like and that have people attending who they can relate to. People are encouraged to find a CMA home group which they attend regularly. This is usually a meeting you relate to, that has people who are benefiting from the meeting and Crystal Meth Anonymous (CMA) program. They generally take a commitment at their CMA home group and hold themselves and others accountable for attending.

How is a Crystal Meth Anonymous (CMA) Meeting Conducted?

Crystal Meth Anonymous (CMA) membership is open to anyone who suffers from Crystal Meth Anonymous addiction, identifies as an addict, and/or has a desire to stop using. People do not have to do anything prior to attending a CMA meeting; they can just show up. Crystal Meth Anonymous (CMA) meeting attendance is kept confidential, and individuals are welcome to attend as many different Crystal Meth Anonymous (CMA) meetings as they desire. Crystal Meth Anonymous (CMA) meetings are typically an hour, but there are also many longer meetings and some shorter in duration.

Typical Crystal Meth Anonymous (CMA) Meeting Format

Individual Crystal Meth Anonymous (CMA) groups may differ slightly in the way they are their individual Crystal Meth Anonymous (CMA) meetings, but in general, a typical format for a CMA meeting is as follows:

• Welcome and opening
• Moment of silence and recitation of the Serenity Prayer
• Explanation of 12-Steps, expectation of confidentiality, and reiteration of openness to all and no cost for membership
• Reading from the Crystal Meth Anonymous (CMA) Literature
• Introductions around the room (first name only, though no one is required to speak)
• Introduction of the speaker or facilitator of the meeting
• Discussion
• Announcements
• Passing of the collection plate, donations are not required although this is how the CMA group sustains itself
• Closing, most likely with a Crystal Meth Anonymous (CMA) reading and a closing prayer

As Crystal Meth Anonymous (CMA) meetings are meant to be a fellowship, there is also often coffee and refreshments at some point either before, during, or after the CMA meeting for networking and socializing. CMA members may choose to volunteer at CMA meetings as coffee makers, greeters, literature distributor, or they can get more involved volunteering as the CMA group’s secretary, CMA treasurer, CMA chairperson, etc.

Those who have been in Crystal Meth Anonymous (CMA) for a long period of time may become a “sponsor” for newer CMA members. A sponsor is a more veteran member of the CMA group, who has gone through the same difficulty you may be facing, has taken the 12-steps of the CMA program, will guide you through the 12 steps of Crystal Meth Anonymous to help with your success. CMA sponsors also offer encouragement around the clock, helping to provide in-the-moment support and guidance when needed, and introduce you to other Recovery Resources. CMA sponsors are often available 24 hours a day, seven days a week, usually by phone, to help sponsees get through potentially difficult situations, temptations, or triggering events. CMA sponsors may meet or check-in with their sponsees regularly, and lifelong relationships may be formed.

Crystal Meth Anonymous (CMA) groups are safe environments free from Crystal Meth, drugs and alcohol, where individuals are surrounded by others with the same goal of sustained clean and sober recovery. These Crystal Meth Anonymous (CMA) meetings can provide individuals with a network of clean peers who can understand and empathize with each other in ways that others who are not in Crystal Meth Anonymous (CMA) may not be able to as easily.

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