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Hi Riaz

It's Mike R from Maryland, USA.  I sent you a letter a short while ago (friday 12/8) after I read your share in an email group.

As I said in that letter, I am an NA member.  I have been hopelessly addicted and now have 13 years 9 months and 25 days clean.  I am an expert at the disease of addiction and I am quite familiar with the Narcotics Anonymous way of recovery.  I have spent much time doing service so that others might find this way of life - so that there would be a Fellowship for me to recover in.

You must be pretty frustrated with communication to folks in the USA.  It sure sounds like you are.  I don't speak for anyone else and I probably won't convey your message to anyone else EVER and certainly not without your permission.  I'm sorry to hear that you have not have much positive response.

Have you got a sponsor?  Are you the only recovering addict where you live?  Are there meetings to attend or are you going to be the one to start them?  What language is spoken in Pakistan?  I have read that languages include Urdu, Punjabi, Sindhi, Pashto, Balochi, and Brahui.

I sponsor 6 guys - 5 here in Maryland - 4 in my area and one about 100-150 km away.  I sponsor a man in Sweden about 5000 km away.  We write emails and call 1-3 times each week.

I have read that you would like to attend the polar bear jump.  When I went to the NA.ORG page I see that there is a polar bear jump in Wisconsin on January 1.  For the money, I recommend you come to USA and attend a convention - not a single event with a single meeting after.  As a matter of fact, I recommend you come to a big convention.

Now that I have looked at your situation a little better, I know that Pakistan is just west of India.  If you want NA recovery and there is no NA where you live, you should find an online NA sponsor.  You should make a trip to the USA and attend a convention, but you should also go to all the conventions in India.  You should also go to Sweden if you can.  I can give you contacts for Sweden if you care.  You can probably just show up in India.

It costs $1300 - $1500 US to fly roundtrip from here (BWI) to Islamabad, Pakistan (ISB).  $1200- 1400 to fly roundtrip from here to Karachi, Pakistan (KHI).  I assume those figures are similar from coming from there to here and then home.  For me that would be a months income after taxes - I could never afford to do it.  If I did it, I would want to see and do everything I possibly could do or go home dissappointed.

Here's what I will do for you.  I will send you a package with speaker tapes from NA conventions.  It will take me some time to make those tapes and I need to go to the store to buy some blank tapes, but I will do this.  Please write me back immediately and let me know if you have a cassette player.  I don't want anything in return except the assurance that you will listen to those tapes.  If you won't listen to them, I won't waste my money and time.  Please let me know about this.

I recommend you reconsider going to the Polar Bear jump.  I understand that you are in a hurry to attend an event in the US.  If you must come now, I think you should go to the Connecticut Regional Convention 5-7 January 2001 in Stamford Connecticut which is pretty far from here.  OR you should wait until spring until 20-22 April and go to the Convention in Ocean City Maryland where there will be 5000 - 7000 recovering addicts.  Typically that is a really good convention.

What is N.O.C.?  What does it mean?  What does it do?  What is involved in getting permission to come here?  Are your efforts getting you scholarship to come here or do you pay on your own?  What do you hope will happen?  What do you expect to gain?

Again, I am a little surprised that you are not in better contact with addicts.  I always write to everyone who asks for help, especially if they are from far away or say they are isolated.  Let me know what I can do to help.

You are not alone.  We do recover.

Mike R
realslow@dmv.com
http://listen.to/recovery

--- Riaz Ahmed <riazahmed_1@yahoo.com> wrote Tue, 12 Dec 2000 22:16:26 -0800 (PST):
> Hello!
>    Its me Dr.Riaz from Pakistan. I am all alone
> no one
> is responding me in favour of recovery. I have
> told
> all of you that in Pakistan the literature and
> other
> necessary basics a deficient. I have told you
> many
> times that i want to shares you and compare so
> that i
> can be able to find that how much recovery i
> have got.
> I am like a wondering stone. I behave in such a
> manner
> that other people think that this is the
> creature of
> any other space. Being a doctor and doing a
> Govt.Official work in Hospital. I have
> requested you
> that you should share my participation in Polar
> Bear
> Jump. Because i have no objection from my Govt.
> and
> country. They are giving me N.O.C. and leave so
> that i
> can go out of country but last time embassy has
> asked
> me that whether you have any sponsor letter or
> fax so
> that i can give you visa. Actually the recovery
> in
> America and literature in America found to be
> stadard
> one. I dont want to go any other country
> because i
> think they are not more than me and I dont want
> to
> waste my money in experiences, so i request you
> that
> being a recovering addict consider my case
> specially,
> you know how recovery is impossible without
> recovering
> addicts and other meetings. I am going to send
> this
> last message if none of you respond me,
> otherwise I
> will believe in it that lonliness and panic
> journey is
> the end result after addiction and I will not
> say it
> as a recovery process.
> Good Bye
> Convey my this message to all of your country
> member
> of recovery.
> 
> Take Care
> 
> Dr.Riaz Ahmed
> 1, A Main Road 
> Samnabad Lahore.
> Pakistan.
> Tel # 7588193
> Fax # 1-208-693-2955 
> 
>

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