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Category: Literature

  • Come Help Us Write the Big Book: The 45th anniversary of the 2nd World Literature Conference

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    Chris Budnick

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    Boyd Pickard

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    Francis C.

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    Tim S.

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    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…

  • Chronology of Narcotics Anonymous Literature (Public Version) – Volume 1 (1953-1993)

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    Chris Budnick

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    Introduction:  Literature is important to the growth and sustainability of many movements.  This is especially true for modern addiction recovery mutual aid fellowships.  Alcoholics Anonymous (the Big Book), first published in 1939, has sold over 37 million copies and has been translated into over 70 languages1.  It served two important functions.  First, it codified how…

  • I Already Had The Hope

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    Chris Budnick

    in ,

    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…