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July 1949

Aid for Drug Addicts

"THERE is a group known as Addicts Anonymous in the Institution composed of individuals who agree with all expert medical opinion that the basic personality difficulties underlying alcoholism and addiction to other drugs are essentially the same, and who are sincerely desirous of recovering. Our group is therefore patterned exactly after the program of Alcoholics Anonymous which has been so remarkably successful in rescuing thousands of otherwise helpless individuals."

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