Editing Narcotics Anonymous (section)

===Resurgence===
In late 1959, meetings began to form again and grow. The NA White Booklet was written in 1962 and became the heart of NA meetings and the basis for all subsequent NA literature. NA was called a "hip pocket program" because the entire literature could fit into a person's hip pocket. This booklet was republished in 1966 as the NA White Book and included the personal stories of many addicts.

The first NA phone line started in 1960, and the first "H&I" group was formed in 1963 (H&I stands for Hospitals and Institutions, a sub-committee of Narcotics Anonymous that carries the message into hospitals and institutions where people cannot get to an outside meeting). That year a "Parent Service Board" (later renamed the World Service Board) was formed to ensure that NA stayed healthy and followed closely to the traditions. Confusingly, in 1962, the [[Salvation Army]] started a group also called "Narcotics Anonymous" that followed a different "13-step" program, but this program soon died out. The NA program grew slowly in the 1960s. Members of the program learned what was effective and what was not. Relapse rates declined over time and friction between NA groups began to decrease.

The 1970s was a period of rapid growth in NA's history. In 1970, there were only 20 regular, weekly meetings, all of them in the United States. Within two years there were 70, including meetings in Germany, Australia, and [[Bermuda]]. By 1976, there were 200 regular meetings, including 83 in California alone, and in the early 1980s in [[Brazil]], Canada, [[Colombia]], India, the [[Republic of Ireland]], Japan, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom. In 1980, the first London meeting opened in Millman Street, Chelsea, with around six members and a second followed months later. By 1981, there were 1,100 different meetings all over the world and in 1983 [[Mary Bolton (charity worker)|Mary Bolton]] founded ''Narcotics Anonymous in Ireland''.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Bolton, Mary {{!}} Dictionary of Irish Biography |url=https://www.dib.ie/biography/bolton-mary-a0773 |access-date=2022-10-09 |website=www.dib.ie |language=en}}</ref> A World Service Office was officially opened in 1977.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20041024183104/http://www.na-history.org/WSO_Incorporation_Papers_1977.html Articles of incorporation] of the World Service Office in 1977.</ref> In 1971, the first NA World Conference was held, and others have followed annually.