Editing Narcotics Anonymous (section)

===Finances===
Narcotics Anonymous members are not required to pay any dues or fees. NA is committed to being fully self-supporting, declining any outside contributions. Group expenses are covered entirely by voluntary contributions from its members. Groups meet costs such as meeting room rental, tea and coffee, and any literature that the group provides for free from these contributions, after which surplus funds are passed to the service structure. Group often provide some literature items such as IPs (Double sided single sheet pamphlets) and keytags/chips celebrating clean time. Area Service Committees are typically funded from Group contributions plus money raised by events such as dances and recovery events attended by members. In some countries Area committees also supply literature to the Groups.<ref>{{Cite web |last=NA |first=Iran |title=انجمن معتادان گمنام |url=https://nairan.org/ |website=وب سایت انجمن معتادان گمنام}}</ref> Areas pass funds on to the Regions, which can also receive contributions from Groups and also raise money through conventions attended by hundreds to thousands and tens of thousands of members. Regions also sometimes run Regional Service Offices which buy literature from the World Service Office and its branch offices for sale to Areas and Groups. Because Regional Service Offices can purchase in bulk and sell at list price sometimes this surplus exceeds the running costs of the office. Regions then pass funds to Zonal Forums and also the World Service Conference via the World Service Office according to the decision of the Region.

At the World Service level of Narcotics Anonymous expenses are met partially by the voluntary donations via the service structure and also through the sale of recovery literature. NA does not accept donations from non-members, organizations, or governments. NA recovery literature is produced by the NA World Service Office (NAWS) located in California, USA. Typically NA groups will purchase literature using group funds from local (area or regional) service offices, or direct from NAWS.

Some literature is provided to new members for free (such as the "Information Pamphlets") while other, typically book-length pieces, are sold at the purchase cost to the group. Literature is also purchased from Group contributions and made available to new members. NAWS receives 87% (2004/5) of its income from the sale of literature. Other expenses include group refreshments, meeting-place rent, etc. Financial information is publicly available on the NA website.<ref>{{cite web|year=2005|url=http://www.na.org/reports/ar/2005/AR2005_Financial_Reports.pdf|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060926002219/http://www.na.org/reports/ar/2005/AR2005_Financial_Reports.pdf|archive-date= September 26, 2006|title=Financial Report 2005|pages=2 (45)|publisher=NA World Services, Inc.}}</ref> The 2007 World Convention of NA ran at a net financial loss of $596,000.<ref>{{cite book|title=NA World Services Conference Report - 29th World Service Conference 2008 |url=http://www.na.org/pdf/cr/0308/2008%20CR%20040808.pdf |publisher=op. cit |page=76 |quote=The single largest surprise in this cycle was the poor attendance at WCNA-32 and the resultant financial loss. Overall, we took in $1,468,000 in total income when we were originally expecting $3,032,000 in the 2006&ndash;2008 NAWS Budget. We had numerous changes to the WCNA-32 budget since it was adopted in April 2006. With our adjustments to the budget in June 2007, we were able to reduce expenses by approximately $263,000 which resulted in a loss to NAWS for WCNA-32 of $596,000. |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080910215242/http://www.na.org/pdf/cr/0308/2008%20CR%20040808.pdf |archive-date=September 10, 2008 }}</ref>