{"id":15,"date":"2026-08-18T19:05:25","date_gmt":"2026-08-18T19:05:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/co-anonsouthafrica.org\/?page_id=15"},"modified":"2026-09-10T13:44:40","modified_gmt":"2026-09-10T13:44:40","slug":"co-anon-family-groups-south-africa-for-friends-and-family-of-cocaine-addicts-and-all-other-mind-altering-substances","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/co-anonsouthafrica.org\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center alignwide has-base-3-color has-text-color has-background has-link-color wp-elements-1 wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"background-color:#4831d4;font-size:34px\">Co-Anon South Africa \u2014 for friends and family of cocaine addicts and all other mind-altering substances<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center alignwide wp-block-paragraph\">Co-Anon South Africa has but one purpose \u2013 to carry the message of hope and personal recovery to family members and friends&nbsp;of someone who is addicted to cocaine and all other mind-altering substances.&nbsp;We do this by practising the Twelve Steps of Cocaine Anonymous ourselves, by understanding addiction and by welcoming and giving comfort to the family and friends of addicts, whether the addict is using or not.&nbsp;It is through this fellowship that we lessen our emotional despair by sharing our experience, strength and hope with others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\">Co-Anon Family Groups are a fellowship of individuals&nbsp;who are&nbsp;husbands, wives, parents, partners, relatives or close friends of&nbsp;someone who is or has been chemically dependent.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\">If you are seeking help for the problems that come from living with an active&nbsp;or recovering addict,&nbsp;we at Co-Anon can help you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-base-3-color has-accent-background-color has-text-color has-background has-link-color wp-elements-2 wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;We who live or have lived with the problem of addiction understand as perhaps few others can. We, too, were lonely and frustrated, but in Co-Anon we discover that no situation is really hopeless, and that it is possible for us to find contentment, and even happiness, whether the addict is still using or not.&#8221;<br><strong>Quote adapted from the book&nbsp; &#8220;How Al-Anon Works&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center alignwide wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\">Contact Co-Anon South Africa<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\">Email:&nbsp;<a href=\"mailto:info@co-anon.org.uk\">info@co-anonsouthafrica.org<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\">Take a look at&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/co-anonsouthafrica.org\/?page_id=41\" data-type=\"page\" data-id=\"41\">Meetings<\/a> to find a meeting in your area or online.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\">View our&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/co-anonsouthafrica.org\/?page_id=43\" data-type=\"page\" data-id=\"43\">T<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.co-anon.org.uk\/testimonials\/\">estimonials<\/a>&nbsp;to read about how Co-Anon has helped people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-background wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"background-color:#5578f3\">The 7th Tradition states: &#8216;Every group ought to be fully self-supporting, declining outside contributions&#8217;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-base-background-color has-background wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Tradition 7 Donations: Friends &amp; Family<\/strong><br><em>Details coming soon<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Co-Anon South Africa \u2014 for friends and family of cocaine addicts and all other mind-altering substances Co-Anon South Africa has but one purpose \u2013 to carry the message of hope and personal recovery to family members and friends&nbsp;of someone who is addicted to cocaine and all other mind-altering substances.&nbsp;We do this by practising the Twelve &#8230; <a title=\"\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/co-anonsouthafrica.org\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about \">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-15","page","type-page","status-publish"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/co-anonsouthafrica.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/15","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/co-anonsouthafrica.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/co-anonsouthafrica.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/co-anonsouthafrica.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/co-anonsouthafrica.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15"}],"version-history":[{"count":37,"href":"https:\/\/co-anonsouthafrica.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/15\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":211,"href":"https:\/\/co-anonsouthafrica.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/15\/revisions\/211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/co-anonsouthafrica.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}