Alright all you so called Big Book thumpers, please tell me exactally where in the approved literature it says "no major changes", as Boleo makes a good piont.
It's not that AA philosophy is filtered through the rehabs, but if you carefully read BOTH the "big Books" AA & NA you will start to see where the confusion is coming from, hence such concepts as 90 in 90, taking your time doing the steps, and thinking of your sponsor as your mommy, your shrink and your personal 911 operator.
AA used to expect the alcoholic to qiuckly regain a respectable place in society, NA on the other hand, well this recoveredcrackhead will just keep identifying himself as an alcoholic at the meetings.
Be Well,
Larry