Two quotes from the Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous come to mind:
(1) "'I know I must get along without liquor, but how can I? Have you a sufficient substitute?' Yes, there is a substitute and it is vastly more than that. It is a fellowship in Alcoholics Anonymous. There you will find release from care, boredom and worry. Your imagination will be fired. Life will mean something at last. The most satisfactory years of your existence lie ahead. Thus we find the fellowship, and so will you."
(2) "Life will take on new meaning. To watch people recover, to see them help others, to watch loneliness vanish, to see a fellowship grow up about you, to have a host of friends - this is an experience you must not miss. We know you will not want to miss it."
I have come to believe that there is a type of alcoholic for whom the only solution is complete submission to the recovery program of A.A. -- and I am one of those types. Feel free PM me if you want to chat more about that..