Hi. In all the thousands of AA meetings I've attended I don't recall one person say "after I drank again my problems had gone away." When we stop drinking life continues, good and bad. "Normal" people deal with them without escaping with a drug. This is what I call recovery, not just putting down the drug of choice, that's simple. Recovery is the part many people are afraid of when AA is mentioned because it involves digging beyond the tip which is alcohol. It would be folly to think that just stopping drinking solves our problems because when we look in the mirror there's the problem to be fixed and most people don't like that fact. BE WELL