Your attitude, not your aptitude, will determine your altitude
Join Date: Dec 2006
Location: Oxnard (The Nard), CA, USA.
Posts: 13,941
AA by far is the most available free of cost (they take donations)
single organization that people seek to get and stay sober. However there are many different ways people use to maintain sobriety. As no one single recovery program is appropriate for everybody.
I believe that having a personal recovery maintenance plan can greatly increase the odds of staying sober. SMART Recovery offers that type of plan. Learning to cope with life's challenges is a good skill set to have too.
So yes, many people do recover from alcoholism w/o AA. Also many others that are recovered from addiction learn to live a life that makes them a joy to be around.