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All About AA
200

This state held the first AA Meeting in 1935.

OH

200

Ya wanna play rough? Al Pacino stars as a Cuban Kingpin involved in cocaine trafficking that eventually sees his demise in this 1983 film. 

Scarface

200

Of the many slogans in the AA program, this one tells me to shoot for progress because _____ is unrealistic.

Perfection


300

Bill W. spent time in a hospital in this city, which he found to be ineffective, before meeting Dr. Bob and founding the AA program. 

New York City
300

We see the rise and fall of drug tycoon Nino Brown and the Cash Money Brothers during the onset of the crack epidemic in NYC during the 1980's. 

New Jack City

300

This program is often recommended for family and friends to better understanding addiction. 

Al-Anon

400

We credit Jimmy Kinnon for founding this program in 1953. 

NA

400

The downfall of one guy and one girl in their addictions leads to one losing a limb and another turning to prostitution in this film starring Jared Leto and Jennifer Connelly.

Requiem for a Dream

400

Looked upon as a spiritual alternative to AA, you will find meetings for this program in churches throughout the country.

Celebrate Recovery

500

in 1930, this program was formed as a means of treating individuals with heroin addiction through the use of methadone. 

MAT 

500

Daryl Poynter is a successful but self-destructive Philadelphia real estate salesman who is addicted to cocaine and alcohol. He embezzles $92,000 of his company's money from an escrow account and spends $52,000 of it between cocaine buys and playing the stock market.

Clean and Sober 

500

These are two types of meetings in AA determine who is allowed to attend.

Open and Closed Meetings

600
This decade saw the first pressing (publishing) of the AA Big Book. 

1930's

600

A hard-drinking New York journalist takes her reputation as the life and soul of the party too far when she knocks over her sister's wedding cake and crashes the bridal limousine and enters a residential treatment program.

28 Days

600

According to AA, someone should be in the program for at least this length of time before dating someone else.

1 Year

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