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Narcotics Anonymous  

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  • Narcotics Anonymous (NA) is a nonprofit, community-based organization for recovering drug addicts. It is a 12-step recovery organization modeled after Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) that emerged in the early 1950s in Los Angeles, California. [Source: Encyclopedia of Drug Policy; Narcotics Anonymous]

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