The Backdoor group was started on April 2, 2002. Our first meeting was scheduled at 8:00 PM Tuesday at the Saint Marks Episcopal Church in Troy, AL. Our first meeting had 18 members in attendance. We new that we needed more meetings in Troy.

We named the group the Troy Group for the first few months. After we added several other meetings, we noticed we had to enter the back door of each meeting facility. So, we changed the name to the Backdoor group.

During the early days we paid rent to the AA fellowship being we were using the room that their Alanon meetings used before that meeting closed. Within a year we decided to go to the church and pay rent to them and have a meeting that the other fellowship had no control over and changed our meeting to 7:00 PM. During 2005, because of issues with AA and access to the room we were using we changed our meeting to 6:30 PM so that our meeting would not disturb theirs when our meetings adjourned. During the February 2006 Group conscience meeting, we decided to ask the church if they had a larger meeting room that we could use because our average attendance had exceeded the capacity of our meeting room. The church decided we could use the building that they held their nursery, and children's classes. We moved into this building during March 2006. During the April 2006 group conscience we decided to change our meeting back to 7:00 PM. The new meeting time would begin on the first meeting of May 2006. This would allow time to notify all of our members and referral agencies.

One of our members helped us find a second meeting place. During May, 2002 we added a second meeting at Wesley Foundation, Methodist Student Center. These meetings were at 7:00 PM on Friday nights.

During 2002 and 2003 we attempted to join the East LA Area of NA, but after three attempts without the area making a quorum, we decided that there was too much controversy in the area. We then chose to wait until our group's conscience decided to try again.

During the Fall of 2002, we were asked by the East Central Mental Heath Center to chair a court referral meeting at their facility. We met on Wednesday's at 7:00 PM. We met for several months but several times we would show up and the building was locked and we had to meet in an amphitheater outside. We had to stop chairing the meeting because of the danger of West Nile Virus. We told the center if we could have a key to access the meeting room on nights that the facility was closed (state holidays) we would start chairing the meeting again. After a few weeks we were contacted and received a key to the meeting room. We continued to chair the meeting on Wednesday nights until we were asked to change the meeting to Monday nights during 2004. We continue to chair the meeting. We have tried several meeting formats and we are now using a basic text study. We open the meetings and read the readings. Then we play a few minutes of the basic text from CD. Then have open discussion. This type of format has worked very well. We have found that many members can not read or write, by listening to the Basic Text they can at least hear the Message of recovery as it is written.

During February of 2006, we our group's conscience decided to attempt to join the East LA area. Now it is called Wiregrass Area of Narcotics Anonymous (WANA) We also decided to open a fourth meeting. We attended the March 2006 meeting of WANA and placed a bid to join. We had several questions for the area. We were accepted and will start voting during New Bushiness during the April 2006 meeting.

During February, March and April 2006 group conscience meetings we adopted Guidelines, Policies, and meeting formats as well as elected members to service positions.

During the March 2006 group conscience meeting, we decided to open a fourth meeting. We were asked to open a meeting at the North side Baptist Church in Troy. This meeting was to be held on Sunday afternoons at 3:00 PM. We have had more than ten members at each of these meetings.

During the month of April 2006 we discussed talking with East central mental health about the two noon meetings that they called AA/NA. We had discovered that these two meetings were not meetings that followed the NA traditions. We were ask could we help support these two meetings and help carry a message of recovery. We agreed if they would call the meetings NA meetings. We started chairing the meeting the first tuesday of may 2006. 12 people attended the meetings the first week.

During the Month of May 2006, the attendance at the Noon meetings increased to 18. We start the meetings by reading from the suggested NA reading cards. We then play five to ten minutes of the Basic Text CD. After listening to the Basic Text we do open discussion. Participation in these meetings are increasing.

We hope our Higher Power will continue to guide us in our growth and to help us carry the message to the addict who still suffers.