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Default Aug 17, 2019 at 12:36 AM
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I know I will seem like an snob and I do not mean to be. 12 step programs of all kinds have helped many. I am an alcoholic so I deal with AA. My daughter is an alcoholic by default but got into drugs as well so she started out with AA. I have been to many NA meetings and my experience may be limited but I seem to see so much drama with NA. In fact all the drug addicts I know started with NA and moved to AA for this reason.

My theory is because the heroin crisis tends to strike the younger tween-20 somethings so there is limited life experience and maturity but maybe I am off base.
Some people who like NA have told me that AA made them feel like they were in a cult. If you are a 12 stepper what do you think?

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Default Aug 17, 2019 at 10:51 AM
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I know I will seem like an snob and I do not mean to be.
Sincere questions don't make anyone seem like a snob in my opinion.

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12 step programs of all kinds have helped many. I am an alcoholic so I deal with AA. My daughter is an alcoholic by default but got into drugs as well so she started out with AA. I have been to many NA meetings and my experience may be limited but I seem to see so much drama with NA. In fact all the drug addicts I know started with NA and moved to AA for this reason.
I have been to NA (and AA) meetings in literally hundreds of districts and have found the dynamics to be quite diverse, but generally speaking, I'll agree.

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My theory is because the heroin crisis tends to strike the younger tween-20 somethings so there is limited life experience and maturity but maybe I am off base.
Perhaps you're right. My take is that AA is full of people who are little more than potential alcoholics. I came in (court ordered) forty-one years ago and in that time, I've watched the bottom raised to the penthouse in many cases. Too, while there is such a thing as a social drinker, you'd be hard pressed to find a social heroin or meth user. This results in addictive behavior starting almost from the first use unlike alcoholics, who often have years or even decades of 'functional' alcoholism.

Alcoholics rarely reach the bottoms that drug users do. i.e how many alcoholics are street walkers selling themselves dozens of times a night for a drink? Recalling the adages, 'Twenty miles in, twenty miles out' and 'We stop growing emotionally when our addiction begins', addicts tend to take more time to crawl back to socially acceptable levels of maturity in recovery.

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Some people who like NA have told me that AA made them feel like they were in a cult. If you are a 12 stepper what do you think?
AA meets the legal definition of a religion in our country. I tend to agree with that assessment. That is not to say that many people don't view or treat it that way - but many do.

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I have tried both for a few days. I think they both help and I enjoyed my experiences.
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