Group bitch meeting(s)

[drdeng]

I will greatly appreciate it if anyone will tell me what "group bitch meetings," as is mentioned in John Grisham's novel The Summons, are like. Here are the relevant passages:

"I'll be back shortly. How's the food?"
"Like a nursing home, Jell O three times a day but always a different color. Really lousy stuff. For three hundred bucks plus a day it's a rip off."
"Any cute girls?"
"One, but she's fourteen, daughter of a judge, if you can believe that. Really some sad people. We have these group bitch meetings once a day where everyone lashes out at whoever got them started on drugs. We talk through our problems. We help one another. Hell, I know more than the counselors. This is my eighth detox, Bro, can you believe it?"

[Quizmonster]

To 'bitch' means to complain or criticise, so a 'group bitch meeting' is one where several people gather to complain about something or someone...in your example, the people who got them started on using drugs.

[makemesmile]

Sounds like they're in rehab and attending group counselling sessions

[maxximus]

yes, no doubt some type of twelve step, sharing sessions.