CDr55,
I was told many, many, many times that 9 months can be a difficult time in early recovery. What I did at 9 months was add an extra meeting but if AA is not working for you, you'll have to find something else to add if you want to continue in recovery.
The thing is, there is no way going back to drinking/using is an improvement over your current situation and you have no way of knowing what you will feel like if you hang in there, make the next best effort in recovery, and get through to the one year point. Two thoughts:
1) We had to have something different and thought we had found it in drugs.
2) Every clean day is a successful day, no matter what else happens.
One Love, One Heart,
Tony