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Rat, I totally get what you're saying, I really do. I beat heroin several years ago with no support whatsoever. My take on addiction pretty much goes along the lines of: if you're not to the point, in your own mind, where you realize something has to change, you will not beat addiction.
I'm all for support groups, I believe they help a lot of people, but they are not the "cure" to anyone's problems. And attending AA, I can tell you there are a lot of people in there who are not ready to quit in their own minds, and are looking for someone else to push them there. Maybe it helps them, I don't know, but it doesn't help me because those are my experiences and that's all I have to gauge off of. It's not at all that I don't participate and take an active role in the meetings, I just see things differently after the things I've been through and I can see fairly easily someone who is there to be TOLD how to quit because they don't know how themselves. Without sounding totally harsh, this to me is a person that will ultimately relapse, until they have convinced themselves, via inner conversation or whatever, that there is no choice but to abstain from their current lifestyle.
I hope that clarifies my point further without turning this into an AA debate.
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