Originally Posted by
raerob 
The move was what we call "a geographic cure"...it doesn't work...because no matter where you go, you take yourself with you.
You say you "tried AA"...but, did you really work it!?! AA tells us, "If you want what we have, and are willing to go to any lengths to get it, then you are ready to take certain steps." Referring, of course, to the 12 Steps of AA...the only way I know of to get/stay sober...I cannot recommend any other method, because it's the only one I ever tried...but, 27 years after the fact, I do know it worked for me.
As young as you are, I'm sure you don't want to hear this from an old fogey...but, you may have to detach from those old drinking buddies, if you ever want to get sober. Give AA another chance...but, wholeheartedly this time...it may very well mean the difference between life and death for you.
I totally concur with what raerob said, I drank for 40 years, I spent the last 10 years of that trying to control/quit drinking and it never worked, when I got into AA and "FOLLOWED DIRECTIONS", in other words "I worked it", I have stayed sober, 114 days now and I have no urge/need for a drink, if you work it hard enough and long enough the miracle will happen, at least it did for me and has for many others.