It's good to hear that this is helpful to you, SiS. It's running through my particular filter, of course, so take me with a grain of salt.
We have a number of people in the group who went through a variety of inpatient/detox programs before coming to IOP. I would encourage you (or anyone) to check into it. Eight weeks of meetings is a nominal amount of time to spend compared to the amount of time any of us spent getting ourselves into this pickle, no?