Do you understand that A.A. has a better track record for long-term sobriety than any other option out there?
I guess you'd rather folks surrender to the singular will of yourself than to a God with all power. You obviously committed a cardinal sin for a "counselor"; you have no idea of what the other programs are really doing.
telling them to rely on the same person who got them into the mess (themselves).
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Thats not what Ron said...
go back and read his comments again...