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  2. Al-Anon/Alateen - Wikipedia

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    Al-Anon Family Groups, founded in 1951, is an international mutual aid organization for people who have been impacted by another person's alcoholism.In the organization's own words, Al-Anon is a "worldwide fellowship that offers a program of recovery for the families and friends of alcoholics, whether or not the alcoholic recognizes the existence of an alcohol-related problem or seeks help."

  3. Emotions Anonymous - Wikipedia

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    Marion originally went to Al-Anon meetings at the advice of a friend to help cope with panic attacks. [2] Later Marion learned of another twelve-step program, Neurotics Anonymous and she started the first such meeting in Minnesota held April 13, 1966, at the Merriam Park Community Center in St. Paul. Neurotics Anonymous grew quickly in ...

  4. Neurotics Anonymous - Wikipedia

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    Grover placed an ad in a Washington, D.C. newspaper for Neurotics Anonymous, and organized the first meeting from those who responded to it. [4] N/A grew modestly until an article was published on it in Parade magazine. [9] The Associated Press and United Press International republished the story, and N/A groups began forming internationally. [4]

  5. Twelve-step program - Wikipedia

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    For example, the third-largest twelve-step program, Al-Anon, assists family members and friends of people who have alcoholism and other addictions. About twenty percent of twelve-step programs are for substance addiction recovery, the other eighty percent address a variety of problems from debt to depression . [ 39 ]

  6. List of twelve-step groups - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of Wikipedia articles about specific twelve-step recovery programs and fellowships.These programs, and the groups of people who follow them, are based on the set of guiding principles for recovery from addictive, compulsive, or other behavioral problems originally developed by Alcoholics Anonymous. [1]

  7. Synanon - Wikipedia

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    Synanon was founded in 1958 by Charles Dederich Sr., a member of Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) from Santa Monica, California. [3] At the time of Synanon's founding, those suffering from drug addiction were not always welcomed into AA because their issues were considered significantly different from those of alcoholics.

  8. Lois W. - Wikipedia

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    Lois Wilson (née Burnham; March 4, 1891 – October 5, 1988), also known as Lois W., was the co-founder of Al-Anon Family Groups, a 12-Step fellowship for the friends and family of alcoholics. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] She was the wife of Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) co-founder Bill W.

  9. Narcotics Anonymous - Wikipedia

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    Meetings first emerged in Los Angeles in the early 1950s. The NA program, officially founded in 1953, [ 17 ] started as a small US-based movement that has grown into the world's largest 12 step recovery program for drug addiction.