The AA Story in Connecticut, Sapir, J, Connecticut Review on
Alcoholism, Vol.8 (7), 25-28, 1957
“No
one can review the literature put out by Alcoholics Anonymous without
being caught up in the sheer excitement of its wild fire growth both
here and all over the world. Nothing else can so well make manifest
the extent and desperation of the need this fellowship has been able
to fill for so many.
Although
the movement was born in 1935, and by 1941 had but 2,000 members,
some of these belonged to pioneering groups in the Connecticut towns
of Westport and Greenwich. Connecticut, thus, was in the movement
almost from the beginning. When, in 1941, the Jack Alexander article
in the Saturday Evening Post brought the A.A. message to millions of
readers all over the country, those who wrote in from this state for
help could be referred to groups within its borders. By the time
Connecticut got its first clinics for the treatment of alcoholism
into operation - in the late 1940's - A.A. groups were firmly
established in New Haven, Hartford, Stamford, Bridgeport and other
cities as well as in Westport and Greenwich, and a substantial number
of native citizens of this state owed their very life, as they would
themselves say, to the sobriety and active fellowship they found in
the movement. Its success, together
with the success of the pioneering work done by the Yale Plan
Clinics, demonstrated to the Connecticut legislature that alcoholism
could be arrested and alcoholics rehabilitated, and prepared the way
for the granting of state support for a rehabilitation service, and
the creation in 1945 of the Connecticut
Commission on Alcoholism.”
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The
Fellas (Friends of Alcoholics Anonymous)
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