courage, I can't really contribute anything to your thread, since I'm the wife of an A who is currently sober and who has used only AA, no paid resources of any kind. The only thing I have to compare it with is my A's father, who did numerous paid rehabs and died an active alcoholic, never achieving any significant sober time. There are too many variables to make it a valid comparison, though, I think.
I'm looking forward to hearing what people have to say on this topic. I have a number of years as a medical transcriptionist in my resume, and during that time I developed a fairly deep distrust of the "health care" system. I feel an awful lot of what is done is done out of a profit motive rather than what is reasonable and/or helpful. I have to imagine there is at least some of the same involved in paid services revolving around addictions.
Thanks for starting this thread.