I never understand why people get in such a fuss about other people's recovery programs, UNLESS there's a serious cost or willful chicanery.
I mean, in the peer-support based programs, you can always just walk away, right? In fact, people do, all the time, at no particular consequence to themselves. No one stalks them or hounds them, right? And there's no bait-and-switch (sorry Dee for using the phrase before, it was poor word choice then) involved -- no one says, "Ha! You thought you were walking in the door of a church basement for recovery, but here's the contract, sign away all your possessions!"
So for free programs, why does anyone care whether they're helpful for other people? I'm only interested in whether they're helpful for me. And I sure as hell don't expect any program to recover me or get me sober. That's my business.
It's like borrowing a book from the library. At worst, I'm only wasting my time.
It seems to me that the issue is only important if I'm buying the book.
What am I missing here?