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At a recent open meeting of Alcoholics Anonymous — the 86-year-old international peer-support recovery program, which opens some of its meetings to the general public — more than 75 people attended, ...

Long considered a key component of recovery, 12-step programs are as popular as ever. But that doesn’t mean they work for everyone. When he was 16, he got a keg of beer. “Beer made me cool,” Marlon ...

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The Tuesday-morning Alcoholics Anonymous meeting was going as planned. Members of the New York Inter-Group Association, the regional hub for the recovery group, had been signing on to AA meetings ...