Narcotics Anonymous - History

History

Narcotics Anonymous sprang from the Alcoholics Anonymous Program of the mid 1930s, and was co-founded by Jimmy Kinnon. Meetings first emerged in the Los Angeles area of California, USA, in the early fifties. The NA program, officially founded in 1953, started as a small US movement that has grown into one of the world's oldest and largest organizations of its type.

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