[Modernman]

The same scoffing could be directed at alcoholics, who often display anti-social behavior.

I'm just cynical about the whole AA and NA group therapy idea. My sister-in-law is a good-for-nothing junkie and all those groups do for her is give her a place to hang out with other junkies.

It just seems like a bad idea to put a bunch of people with the same addiction around each other.

[NJ_gent]

"It just seems like a bad idea to put a bunch of people with the same addiction around each other."

My step father went into AA long ago. Not only did it help him quit; he still goes there any time he's feeling weak, such as when he lost his father a few years ago. He's been sober now for something like 20 years. The thing with AA and NA is that the people who go have to want it to work, and they have to do what they're told they need to do. Sure they're hanging out with fellow addicts inside that meeting, but they're specifically told not to hang out with junkies who are still using, which usually means all their old friends.

[Graybeard58]

My sister-in-law is a good-for-nothing junkie and all those groups do for her is give her a place to hang out with other junkies.

It just seems like a bad idea to put a bunch of people with the same addiction around each other.

Sorry to hear about your sister-in-law.

AA has helped me one day at a time for 23 years.