Taking5

This actually IS the choice in some areas, California for certain. I did not get sentenced to attend AA, I got sentence to attend alcohol meetings. In the list of meetings provided by the court (in 1999 I might add) were non AA alternatives. However these were outnumbered by AA meetings by about 100:1.

So there is an alternative, but then practicality that comes into play. There is no practical alternative to AA for the number of meetings. Many smaller or even medium sized towns have nothing except AA.

Some non AA alternatives do not hold meetings at all (RR). The rest just haven't organized to the extent to offer meetings to any great degree. With all the people that make a fuss about AA being religious, you would think there would be tons of these non AA meetings, but there aren't.