If a group of alcoholics follow hear and try to follow the instruction of just going to meetings, eventually they won't go to meetings, and they will get drunk. Or, before going to the next meeting, they will get drunk and maybe not make the meeting. The idea that a meeting will keep a drunk sober, however true it may be in certain cases, is contradictory to the program of AA and what it proposes. To anyone who ways that meetings keep an alcoholic sober, I would ask them, how do you know that the people are not keeping themselves sober, and thus they are able to attend the meetings rather than the other way around? Meetings helped me a lot. They still do. However, I pray that newcomers and those struggling read the posts on this website from those who have the common problem and common solution. Meetings are not the solution; they are only a part of the solution. That is not my opnion, and anything else said on the matter coming from me would only be opinion and need not be said.