Tools and downloads
Everything here is free
C.A. World Services publishes its pamphlets at no charge. You do not need to be a member, give a name, or create an account to read any of them. Every title below links straight to it.
Pamphlets
Start with one of these
Printed copies are also on the literature table at our meetings, free to anyone who wants one.
To the Newcomer
The first thing most of us were handed. What C.A. is, what it asks, and what it does not ask.
Read it →What is C.A.?
The short answer, suitable for handing to a family member or an employer who wants to understand.
Read it →A Guide to the 12 Steps
What each Step actually involves when you sit down to do it with a sponsor.
Read it →Tips for Staying Clean & Sober
Practical, unsentimental suggestions from members for the days when it is hard.
Read it →The First 30 Days
What the first month tends to feel like, so that it is less alarming when it does.
Read it →Cocaine Anonymous Self-Test
The official questions to ask yourself if you are not sure whether you belong here.
Read it →And All Other Mind-Altering Substances
Why C.A. treats alcohol and every other drug as the same problem.
Read it →Choosing Your Sponsor
How to ask, what a sponsor is for, and what they are not for.
Read it →Tools of Recovery
Meetings, sponsorship, literature, service and the phone -- what members actually use.
Read it →A Higher Power
For anyone stuck on the word God, including atheists and agnostics who stayed clean anyway.
Read it →H.O.W. - Honesty, Open-mindedness and Willingness
The three things the program asks of a newcomer, and nothing else.
Read it →Being of Service
How service works in C.A., and why it is treated as part of recovery rather than a chore.
Read it →Who is a C.A. Member?
The membership question, answered by the Third Tradition.
Read it →A Message to Professionals
For clinicians, counsellors, judges and employers who want to know what we do.
Read it →Too Young to Recover?
For younger members who think they have not lost enough yet.
Read it →C.A. is for the LGBTQ Addict
You are welcome here, and you are not the only one.
Read it →Having Fun in Recovery
On the fear that getting clean means the end of a good time.
Read it →Yes, You Can Start a C.A. Meeting
Exactly what it takes to open a new meeting -- worth reading if Santa Fe needs another.
Read it →The Home Group
Why picking one meeting and committing to it changes the outcome.
Read it →The 7th Tradition
Why we pass a basket and why we decline outside money.
Read it →Anonymity
What anonymity protects, and what it asks of each of us.
Read it →Crack
Written for the addict who thinks C.A. is not for them.
Read it →
Tools
Beyond the printed page
C.A. Meeting Finder app
Over a thousand C.A. meetings, wherever you happen to be, kept up to date by more than a hundred C.A. service bodies. Useful when travelling, and useful at 11 p.m. on a Thursday.
Online C.A. meetings
Meetings running most hours of the day, from a phone, with your camera off if you prefer.
C.A. World Service Office
The full literature catalogue, the world meeting directory, convention information and service material.
Looking for the Santa Fe schedule instead? It is on the meetings page →