Thank you so much for this thread, guys... It motivated me to order "12 steps on buddha's path", after linking to some of the sites you listed here. I'm still trying to find a "program". I think that for me, the winging-it school of thought (or, 1.Don't drink, 2. See step 1), will not be a path to long-term sobriety. So I'll give this one a look and see where it leads me!
It makes sense... the Buddhist emphasis on attachment leading to suffering, connected to desire to drink leading to my particular form of suffering, ie being a falling-apart alkie.