Melissa Kite Melissa Kite

AA is turning away the very people who need it most

Only those without too many issues are welcome at meetings

[Photo: Andrii Shablovskyi] 
issue 19 November 2022

‘If AA wants to make its meetings safe, then maybe it should ban alcoholics,’ said the builder boyfriend and I had to admit, he had cracked it.

There was me getting all wound up about why more and more of the meetings in Surrey won’t let the bricklayer in because of his criminal convictions and a vaguely expressed malaise about his liking for the ladies, and it was actually quite simple.

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