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Spirituality and the Recovery Movement - Hogg Foundation for ...

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Nation of Islamo The Nation of Islam is perhaps one of <strong>the</strong> most successful program inreaching African American male substance abusers in <strong>the</strong> criminaljustice system.o Ef<strong>for</strong>ts in <strong>the</strong> 1950s <strong>and</strong> ongoing today.o 1995, <strong>the</strong> author interviewed 10 African American males who werechemically dependent, with criminal pasts <strong>and</strong> who credited <strong>the</strong>irrecoveries to <strong>the</strong> Nation of Islam.o Some attended 12-step group meetings (Narcotics Anonymous)<strong>and</strong> were members of <strong>the</strong> Nation of Islam.

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