[lulu70]

Hey there--I hope I am getting back to you quickly enough. First of all, it is fine for your boyfriend to go to AA meetings, especially open meetings. Open meetings are open to anyone, whether they have a desire to stop drinking or not. Closed meetings are only for people who have a desire to stop drinking. You can find out if the meeting is open or closed by looking at the schedule. If it is closed, it should say so. Is your boyfriend planning on continuing to drink? If so, it might not be a good idea to try to attend AA.

Also, just so you and he know, there are some AA groups who frown upon people discussing their problems with drugs in meetings. However, if your bf can discuss his problems and not mention the drugs, per se, he can get around that. Alot of places don't have many NA meetings and AA is everywhere, so this problem is encountered a lot. And who knows? The meetings where you are may be very tolerant and say it's okay to talk about drugs too! AA doesn't ask people to not talk about drugs because they want them to be left out. We have what is calle a 'singleness of purpose.' We always want an alcoholic to understand what we are saying and to feel they are in the right place. Does that make sense?

Please feel free to post here again or to send me a PM if you have any more questions!