In doing research on 12-step programs, I found that at about 20 years of age, once the program has become "viable", the government likes to step in and take over.  They did it in AA, and pushed Bill Wilson right out of his own program.  Of course to do that, they have to smear the founder any way they can, as well as push out any of his supporters.  That's why the Ohio group became so strong when Bill was pushed out of the NY General Office.  In Narcotics Anonymous, they had to boot Jimmy Kinnon right out of his own office as well.  Which they did, right down to changing the locks.  The man who was put in charge of the world service office of NA was Bob Stone.  He wasn't even an addict.  I asked him to mentor me in what he knew anyway because he was able to teach me about the administration of a 12 step program - or how to run it from a "business" perspective.  As I got to know him, he got to know me and realized what he was doing to addicts was wrong.  After his change of heart, he published his own memoirs to hopefully warn the fellowship as best as he could legally in his book "My Life in NA".  Sure enough, at 20 years in, I also had an attempt made to "take over" and smear me and boot me out of the SWA fellowship - only I was prepared for them as I'd seen the patterns in my own research.  NA AS IT WAS FIRST DESIGNED WORKS.  What's taken over the program today is LITERALLY KILLING ADDICTS.  If you want to know what I mean by this - listen to this episode on "The Take Over of NA" or the "tradition wars" as some call it.