"Harry Krause" wrote in message
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Wm Shakespeare Smithers wrote:
I thought AA has been effective helping alcoholics, and that goes back to
before there were "rehab clinics".


What part of "support group" do you not understand?
AA is a support group. That is all it is.

And its effectiveness is the best.

"Rehab" clinics do more than provide support, but they also provide
support, sometimes in conjunction with AA, sometimes not.

AA alone has been proven to be more effective than any other method for
getting and keeping alcoholics sober. The sad thing is that it only works
23% of the time, if that much.

There also are other ways of treating addition.

Addiction is the hardest thing to treat without the addicted person wanting
to be treated.

There's more than one cover for the pot.