Originally Posted by
Gottalife 
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The only group I ever started was to fill a percieved gap in the way our program is presented. It has been well supported and does good work. If you know some similarly minded people, you can make a difference that way.
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Bingo.
And if you don't want to do that, it's fine.
Me, I go to about one AA meeting a year, near my anniversary time, and I go to the city detox and share my story and listen intently to their stories.
Almost any program, from 1939 to 2017, will work if you stop drinking. I leave the science, updated or otherwise, to the experts. The only expert I'm interested in being is an expert in not picking up that next drink.
I get what Rphaire is saying, but I, too, would be more interested in hearing about what works for Rphaire.