“Crossing color, class, gender, and generational lines, the communities of addiction and recovery are as democratic as America gets. Twelve-step meetings are in fact downright radical: nonprofit and nonhierarchical, with a fierce etiquette of listening to and caring about everyone who wanders into the rooms.”

—  John Leonard

"Can't Get Enough" http://nymag.com/nymetro/arts/tv/reviews/2386/, New York Magazine (23 May 1998)

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