‘If you were to try and understand 12-step culture just by looking at what was written in the 1930s, you’re not going to really understand what 12-step culture is,’ says ethnographer Wendy Dossett.

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The 12-step addiction recovery movement, one of the great social experiments of the 20th century, originated in 1935 with the advent of Alcoholics Anonymous. Currently one of the primary models for ...

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It was Nov. 3, 2020, when Derrik Bunyon walked into Step Denver. He'd spent much of the previous two years living on the streets of the Mile High City, using alcohol and drugs to numb the pain after ...