(Alcoholic Anonymous Tradition 3 – The only requirement for A.A. membership is a desire to stop drinking)
Have been in AA for 8 years & the article below is a gross over-generalization. That purist, hard-core attitude is all but dead and AA has saved millions and millions of people:
“The real barrier may not lie in a lack of resources, but in the very way America still thinks of addiction, thanks to a decades-old 12 Step philosophy that has left a new generation of addicts out in the cold”
INSPIRATION AND EMOTIONAL COURAGE: MENTAL ILLNESS, ADDICTION, AND RECOVERY 