She first started working the steps after relapsing and then getting involved with something called "ANA." She said it was another Twelve Step fellowship, and made it sound like a sort of Back to Basics movement for any kind of addiction, with no distinction between alcohol and drugs, for example.
When I Googled for ANA, I didn't find anything like what she was describing. The most relevant links returned was to ANA Treatment Centres, a British chain of rehabs. I didn't see any explanation of why they use "ANA" in their name, but from some of the description, I can see that it might be related.
The next most closely related was for "my friend Ana." (Well, at least I learned one new thing today!)Does anyone know any more about this? That is, about the fellowship H. was talking about, not about my friend Ana.
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ana here in new jersey is the berkly hights group (not spelled correctly) basicly they ie; this group tries to emulate what the first 100 people in aa did ...although the big book was not written when the first 100 people started aa but I digress;when a prospect goes to an ana meeting they are encouraged to be sponserd and to go through the steps with a sponser right away to put it bluntly they treat acholism as a serious progressive fatel disease........and no I did not get sober in ana but someone from that group explained what aa was and was not................ and lets say a light came on I found a real sponser stoped complaining and found out what one means when they say get with the program.. Eric nj sober march 1998
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