AA isn't really a treatment program IMHO; it's a way of life and Recovery management. I have come to think of the 'treatment program' I was in, intensive outpatient treatment(IOP) as what GOT me sober; and although for me AA is a now very 'passive' in my recovery, part of what KEEPS me sober. AA and a lot of other things, THis Site, Meditation, Journaling, Spirituality Practices....