Talk:Jimmy Kinnon

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this is cool thank-you sober98@msn.com (Lynn)

I owe my life to this man,Thanks N.A 2 years clean :o) Thomas

Alexander King mentioned going to the first NA meetings in New York City in the late 1940s in his 1960 book Mine Enemy Grows Older. This suggests there were groups on both the east and west coast that were operating independently, and that Kinnon did not found N.A.

Hello 71.160.148.27, your observation refers to a rather well-known phenomenon around a certain Daniel Carlsen (just google him) who started a social agency in NYC helping addicts. Carlsen's agency coincidentally had the same name; however, it had very little to do with what is commonly referred to today as Narcotics Anonymous. Whether Carlsen and Kinnon ever met is not clearly documented and therefore disputed. Hope this helps. Tribute2jimmyk 21:40, 7 September 2006 (UTC)