Originally Posted by
ljc267 
Just curious.
Does AA receive state and/or federal funds? Just curious as to how the court is able to assign people to the program.
I don't know about funding, I doubt it, but in many places in the US, a DUI (and probably some other charges) will result in a judge telling you to attend alcoholism support group meetings. He can't legally tell you to go to AA, but in practice in many places, there are no options other than AA. That was the typical mandated route in meetings I used to attend. The rest were mandated by treatment programs that required them to attend a certain number of outside meetings, and in some cases those treatment programs were also mandated by a judge, but that seemed uncommon.