CMA in the UK.

In the winter of 2012, five recovering addicts felt that the time had come to start CMA in London. All five of us met at Twelve Step fellowship meetings. 

All five of us identified as crystal meth addicts and all five of us felt there was something missing in how we could share and connect. Some felt we couldn’t share where our acting out took us; some felt shame for the depths to which crystal meth had taken us; some felt misunderstood when sharing about our using history.

Then someone suggested that there were CMA meetings in the US; some had already been to CMA meetings abroad and learned about it.

From a winter of setting up meetings in our living rooms we arrived at our first CMA meeting in Europe on a Wednesday in April 2013. In the years since, our membership has grown so much, thanks to the service of so many fellow addicts, that we now have daily CMA meetings in London. 

We at CMA in the UK do not think our disease of addiction is different to other addictions, but we do recognise how the extra identification can be very helpful when trying to connect. Our meetings host not exclusively crystal meth addicts, but also people who identify other party drugs and other forms of acting out as part of their story.