E102: The Oral History Of NA With Insider Pete B

Sober Friends

Matt J

12 Steps, Spirituality, Personal Journals, Mental Health, Sober, Recovery, Health & Fitness, Addiction, Religion & Spirituality, Alcohol Free, Sober Curious, Alcoholics Anonymous, Dry January, Society & Culture, Sobriety

4.3 • 722 Ratings

🗓️ 22 November 2022

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Send us Fan Mail We are into our third year! To kick it off, we invited Pete B back to talk about the history of Narcotics Anonymous. If you know about 12 step groups, I bet you know a lot of Alcoholics Anonymous, but what do you know about NA? Well, we knew next to nothing. Pete B was involved with writing the original text of NA back in the early 1980s. Who better to talk about how NA started. Like many 12 step groups, the first NA groups used the AA Big Book ...

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0:00.0	I'm Matt.
0:00.9	Hey, I'm Steve.
0:01.9	Hey, I'm John.
0:03.1	This is the Sober Friends podcast.
0:05.8	We're here for The Sober Curious, the new guy, and the old timer.
0:10.3	We're here to talk about the stuff anyone looking to live, alcohol-free has-to-face day-to-day.
0:15.5	Now we overcame those struggles.
0:17.3	We speak for no 12-step group, but we do try to remain anonymous.
0:23.6	You're not alone. This is the Sober Friends podcast. All right, happy birthday to us. We're two years old now.
0:26.6	We're into our third year of podcasting.
0:29.6	And when you get past 100 episodes and you're moving on to episode 101,
0:34.6	you start to have return guests, especially ones that have really interesting
0:39.3	stories when you haven't touched the surface. And we're bringing back a returning guest from just
0:44.3	a couple episodes ago, Pete B. Pete B is pretty well involved in Narcotics Anonymous. Not what we typically talk about here, but let's, this is my view.
0:57.8	You tell me if I'm wrong, boys. My view is anybody who has an addiction, we're all the same.
1:02.6	Absolutely.
1:03.5	You got a Coke addiction. You got an alcohol addiction. I can identify with you.
1:08.8	And I realized, well, I guess thought about this that I know NA exists, but I don't know
1:15.4	the history.
1:16.3	I know the history of A8.
1:17.4	It starts in 1938, Bill W.
1:19.8	And Dr. Bob started it.
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