Hey, Ken here -- high bottomed drunk -- and THANK YOU to Music and DangerousDan for showing where my drinking would have taken me.
Chy, you're right -- we should not shove AA down anyone's throat, I just think those of us who have gotten sober in AA get frustrated when folks go to one meeting and decide it's not for them.
For me, it's frustrating because what if this person judges every recovery program by one shot at it, then kills his or her self with drinking/drugging?
Then again, someone has to make up the "non-recovered" part of the statistics.
Either way, I do hope that everyone who comes here for recovery and sobriety finds it, in whatever form it comes... You don't HAVE to lose everything, but sometimes that's what it takes.
Ken