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===Predecessors=== [[Alcoholics Anonymous]] was the first 12-step program, and through it many with drug and drinking problems found sobriety. The [[Twelve Traditions#The Twelve Traditions of Alcoholics Anonymous|Fourth Tradition]] gives each AA group the autonomy to include or exclude non-alcoholic addicts from "closed" meetings{{spaced ndash}} where only those with an expressed desire to quit drinking may attend. At "open" AA meetings, non-alcoholics are welcome.<ref name="AA">{{cite web|url=http://www.aa.org/lang/en/catalog.cfm?origpage=11&product=84|title=For Anyone New Coming to A.A.; For Anyone Referring People to A.A. |publisher=AA World Services, Inc.|access-date=June 15, 2006}}</ref> In 1944, AA's co-founder [[Bill W.|Bill Wilson]] discussed a separate fellowship for drug addicts.<ref>"Alcohol, Science and Society". 1945. ''[[Journal of Studies on Alcohol]]''. p 472.</ref> In 1947, NARCO (also called Addicts Anonymous) met weekly at the U.S. Public Health Service's treatment center ([[Federal Medical Center, Lexington]]) inside the [[Lexington, Kentucky|Lexington]], [[Kentucky]] federal prison for 20 years.<ref>U.S. Public Health Service: Public Affairs Pamphlet #186, September 1952 (page 29).</ref> In 1948, a NARCO member started a short-lived fellowship also called "Narcotics Anonymous" in the New York Prison System in [[New York City]], [[New York (state)|New York]].<ref name="Sep" /> This version of NA did not follow the 12 Traditions of NA, which resulted in problems for the fellowship and ultimately the end of that NA in the late 1940s. Jimmy K., who is credited with starting the NA as we know it today, did contact Rae Perez, a leading member of this NA fellowship. Because that fellowship did not want to follow the 12 traditions written by AA, the two NA fellowships never united.
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