New Yorker magazine March 23 1998 AA Alcoholics Anonymous Oxford Group Hazelden NEAR MINT

The New Yorker Magazine, March 23 1998, the complete issue in gorgeous shape, with no label, no label remnants (it never had a label) and no UPC code, the combination of which is extremely hard to find.  Art Spiegelman illustrated the cover.  Inside: "Annals of Addiction" (here is the extensive description from The Complete New Yorker): "ANNALS OF  ADDICTION  about recidivism and Alcoholics Anonymous groups, and in particular about Hazelden Foundation...  Describes how patients at Hazelden combatted a ban on coffee by surreptitiously brewing coffee in their rooms...  Eventually waste pipes in the Minnesota treatment center became clogged with coffee grinds, and the coffee ban was finally and ingloriously rescinded... Hazelden was disrupted for months just as the foundation's president, Jerry Spicer, had begun to encourage the use of antidepressant drugs and other therapies that are not traditionally part of the twelve-step process... This was an ideological crisis...  Mentions se