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Adam, a 35-year member of Alcoholics Anonymous, works in his pottery studio near Cheney. “If there's a higher power, he works through imperfect people to help others,” Adam said of his decision to sponsor a local Alateen chapter Medical Lake Alternative High school.
Alateen chapters catching on with meetings at ML alternative school, soon at MLHS
By RYAN LANCASTER
Staff Reporter
Getting teens to open up is sometimes tough, but their silence can be downright impenetrable when it comes to discussing the problem drinking of a relative or friend.
Enter Alateen, a 12-step recovery program for youth adapted from Al-Anon (AA) and sponsored by current AA members. While local AA meetings abound, for the past seven years there has been just one Alateen meeting in the area – at Gonzaga University in Spokane.
Then, at the start of this school year, Adam, a 35-year AA...
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