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What is

Crystal Meth Anonyomous?

Dual Diagnosis CMA is a fellowship of men and women who share their experience, strength, and hope with each other so that they may solve their common problems and help each other recover from crystal meth addiction and mental disorders. DD CMA is designed to meet the needs of those addicted to crystal meth as well as having been diagnosed with a mental or emotional disorder. We also address the problems and benefits associated with psychiatric medication as well as other issues crucial to mental health; thus, we recognize that for many, having addiction and mental disorders represents double trouble in recovery. 

There are no dues or fees for DD CMA membership; we are self-supporting through our own contributions. DD CMA is not affiliated with any sect, denomination, political group, organization, or institution. Our primary purpose is to maintain freedom from our addiction to crystal meth and to maintain our well-being.

We band together at Dual Diagnosis Crystal Meth Anonymous to help ourselves recover from our addictions and mental disorders. We share our experiences to help ourselves to become honest, open-minded, and willing. Sharing helps all of us to remember how it was and how we arrived at where we are today. We live one day at a time and practice the 5 Steps of Dual-Diagnosis and the Twelve Steps of DD CMA.

Five

5 Steps of Dual-Diag

1. We admitted that we had a mental illness in addition to our addiction to crystal meth and we accepted our dual diagnosis

2. We became willing to accept help for both of these diseases

3. We have understood the role of medication, including its risks and benefits, the importance of clinical interventions and therapies and we have accepted the need for sobriety from crystal meth and abstinence from all
non-prescribed drugs in our program

4. We came to believe that when our own efforts were combined with the help of others in the fellowship of DD CMA, and God, as we understood Him, we would develop addiction free lifestyles

5. We continued to follow the DD CMA recovery program managing our wellbeing, a healthy addiction-free lifestyle and help others who are also dually diagnosed

Today, I will be free of crystal meth and other mind-altering substances.

Today, I will follow a healthy plan to manage my emotional or psychiatric illness.

Today, I will practice the Twelve Steps of CMA and Five Steps of Dual Diagnosis.

Twelve

12 Steps of DD CMA

1. We admitted we were powerless over our mental disorders and substance abuse—that our lives had become unmanageable.

2. Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.

3. Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of a God of our understanding.

4. Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.

5. Admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs.

6. Were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character.

7. Humbly asked God to remove our shortcomings.

8. Made a list of all persons we had harmed and became willing to make amends to them all.

9. Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others.

10.Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it.

11.Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God of our understanding, praying only for knowledge of God’s will for us and the power to carry that out.

12.Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these Steps, we tried to carry this message to other dually diagnosed people, and to practice these principles in all our affairs.

DD CMA is a meeting where we discuss a variety of topics related to our addiction and mental disorders.  The meeting chair will either choose a topic or ask someone to choose a number between 1 and 28.  That number reflects the topic of the meeting.

The following is a complete list of the topics we have chosen that relate to either mental health and/or our addictions:

Abstinence from all non-prescribed drugs

Accepting limitations

Dealing with stress

Fellowship

Hope

Mindfulness

Perseverance

Prescribed medications in recovery

PTSD

Setting and achieving goals

Shame

Spirituality

Stigma of being dually-diagnosed

Trauma

Acceptance

Challenges with my diagnosis

Exercise

Gratitude

Medications / Medication side effects

Patience

Positive outlets

Psychiatric hospitalizations

Routine

Serenity

Sleep Hygiene

Sponsors

Therapy

Working the steps

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Changelog

0.2.10

  • Fixed permission issue on Meetings beta page
  • Removed online meetings from In-Person Meetings page
  • Changed URL of In-Person Meetings page to /inperson
  • Changed URL of Meetings beta page to /meetings and created redirect

 

0.2.9

  • Performance optimization
  • Depreciated Calendar
  • Minor layout fixes
  • Added Hyperlist page
  • Changed single announcements post layout to horizontal card


0.2.8

  • Removed sticky header
  • Fixed announcements loop mobile layout


0.2.7

  • Introduced Meetings beta page


0.2.6

  • Introduced horizontal announcement cards for homepage and announcements page
  • Added webmail link to Site Index and Intergroup page
  • Minor layout fixes


0.2.5

  • Added MARCMA page
  • Fixed tablet layout issues on header
  • Moved “Posted On” date to the bottom of the announcement cards
  • Minor adjustments to elements


0.2.4

  • Expanded header and footer to full width on desktop
  • Centered logo on header and repositioned menus on desktop
  • Incorporated mega menu trigger into logo
  • Introduced new full width footer
  • Created Site Index slide-in
  • Revised Changelog slide-in
  • Refreshed Stories page and implemented Loop Grid queries
  • Minor layout fixes


0.2.3

  • Minor layout fixes
  • Standardized heading fonts H1 through H6 for uniformity
  • Transitioned more text elements to REM
  • Added CMA Fellowships Directory page
  • Fixed mobile menu 


0.2.2

  • Introduced new horizontal logo design and enlarged proportions on header
  • Thinned header
  • Recolored the title bar above header to pale gray
  • Introduced new color schema throughout site with more bold, contrasting colors against neutral backgrounds
  • Restyled New to CMA? page
  • Introduced new Intergroup logo with Lottie animation
  • Simplified homepage layout
  • Introduced design blog
  • Set button border radius to 15px site-wide


0.2.1
 

  • Replaced homepage slider with new hero design
  • Added Lottie animations
  • Added change log page
  • Implemented Loop Builder for queried posts
  • Redesigned announcements carousel on homepage
  • Redesigned announcements archive pages with infinite scroll
  • Minor fixes to layouts
  • Unified button color schema
  • Optimized database
  • Removed old page revisions for performance


0.2.0

  • New header layout
  • Implemented mega menu
  • Recolored major elements with more saturated hues
  • Homepage redesign with scrolling clouds motion at footer
  • Footer condensed and restyled
  • Added Daily Check-In page


0.1.10

  • Restyled Newcomer page with cloud graphics
  • Changed name to ‘New to CMA?’


0.1.9

  • Added Stories pages
  • Configured Stories category and blog query


0.1.8

  • Header rescaled and added background blur


0.1.7

  • Added Elections page


0.1.6

  • Added Online meetings page


0.1.5

  • Homepage refresh
  • Added Announcements carousel


0.1.4

  • Added Dual-Diagnosis page


0.1.3

  • Added Newcomer page


0.1.2

  • Introduced card-styled elements throughout site
  • Complete restyling of Meetings page with card-centric layout


0.1.1

  • Container reduced to 1140px
  • Header resized and  boxed


0.1.0

  • Initial release
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