| Narcotics
Anonymous sprang from the Alcoholics Anonymous movement in the
late 1940s, with meetings first sprouting up in the Los Angeles
area of California, USA, in the early Fifties. For many years
the society grew very slowly, spreading from Los Angeles to
other major North American cities and Australia in the early
1970s. An assembly of local delegates was first established
in 1978. In 1983 Narcotics Anonymous published its self-titled
basic text, and growth rates have since skyrocketed. Groups
formed rapidly in Brazil, Colombia, Germany, India, the Irish
Republic, Japan, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom. In the
three years following initial publication of NA's basic text,
the number of Narcotics Anonymous groups nearly tripled. Today,
Narcotics Anonymous is fairly well established throughout much
of Western Europe, the Americas, Australia, and New Zealand,
with newly formed groups and NA communities scattered through
the Indian subcontinent, Africa, East Asia, the Middle East,
and Eastern Europe. |
