"If alcohol was so different than drugs I wouldn't have been in detox with both. They would have had seperate wings. It isn't that different, I relate a lot more with the AA'ers than with NA'ers. We are more alike than different".
You could make a good arguement based on oldtimer's experiences as well a hard demographic data that combining aa and na would not be a good thing in general. That being said I agree with you in principle. Part of recovery is meditating on the serenity prayer. Your are not going to chang oldtimer's minds nor the general demographic differences that separate the 2.":day6