A.A., as with all recovery programs in popular use today, is largely a failure, claiming a success rate of 3%. A.A. is Roman Catholic Confession, without any forgiveness for sin. Members confess sin in small groups, but no one offers forgiveness. Therapy works in a similar way, sins are confessed, but no forgiveness is granted.
All recovery amounts to is different ways to justify sin, and eliminate the sins directly threatening one's life, while retaining the rest. The only recovery that works is giving up all sin.
I refer to sin, but not in the religious sense. Sin is any transgression across the bounds of Universal Justice, or Natural Laws governing three dimensional reality.
Roman Catholicism is an excellent way to recover from addiction. It isn't fear based like other types of recovery, and relies upon the purely rational to bring about immortality.
The cold steel of knowledge based on what can be known through the five senses, and analyzed without use of Truth; the human imagination exalting itself into the absolute authority; man being an end unto itself, witnessing 'what is' through extremely limited intellectual capacity, and even more limited sensory channels, becomes a weapon the human race uses to commit genocide against itself.
Secular humanists shall never be given authority to do anything besides litter the intellectual landscape with corpses. Secular humanists are the coming to pass of George Romero's Prophesy: 'When Hell is full, the dead will walk the earth'.
These are the undead, bodies without souls, attempting to eliminate the souls in living people through practice of the occult. Secular humanists have faith in many things. They are more faithful to dogmatic and systematic thought patterns meant to encase the world in darkness than Roman Catholics are to Doctrine meant to bathe the world in Light.
I used Roman Catholicism to recover, and it works.