Types of AA or NA Meetings

There are many different types of Twelve Step meetings that can be found in the meeting directories available online: see Alcoholics Anonymous http://www.alcoholics-anonymous.org/ and Narcotics Anonymous http://www.na.org/, where you can find meetings in your area of the country. For this entry, I will just mention the two basic types of meetings: Open Meetings, which are meetings for anyone interested in Twelve Step recovery regardless of whether they have a problem or not; and Closed Meetings, which are meetings for persons who have self-diagnosed as alcoholics or addicts. No one stands at the doors to screen people entering to see if they have made such a self-diagnosis; the point is that these closed meetings are intended not just for people exploring interest in recovery but for people who have decided that they do have a problem.