Category: Basic Text

Eleven months after the 1st World Literature Conference (WLC), addicts gathered in Lincoln, Nebraska, to work on a book for Narcotics Anonymous.  Many of the attendees first attended the 10th World Convention of NA (WCNA 10) in Wichita, KS, before traveling the 240 miles to Lincoln.  Two of these travelers, attending their first WLC, brought…

April 1981 in southern California two very different groups met to address the drug problem.  On April 22nd Jim Keane, Chief of Police for the Santa Monica Police Department, testified before the Select Committee on Narcotics Abuse and Control in Los Angeles.1 Four days later, 146 recovering addicts met at the Retail Clerks Union Hall…

The Living Clean Podcast recently published a two-part conversation with Al R., George R., and Pete B., three members who participated in the writing of the Basic Text through World Literature Conferences and local literature committees (Bristol and Philadelphia).  Click these links to watch part one of this conversation and to watch part two of the conversation.  Of…