It's just another addiction... slightly healthier than the other one. I had to go to a few meetings after a DUI several years ago now. Guys in there were telling about how they'd been sober 8, 9, 10 or more years, and retold how they lost everything to drinking after they woke up in their own barf in a phone booth, and they told the story every week, over and over and over again.
I couldn't help think... 10 years, and you haven't come up with a better hobby? You're not drinking, but you're ~still~ talking about drinking!
It fills people with this idea they'll never ever be recovered. I just don't think that's healthy. They still feel as worthless as the last day they drank, just one terror filled slip from a binge. I don't see the appeal.
That is how I feel about AA for some, just another habit. I had come across a book, bought it too (for my sister to no avail), it was anti-AA. First thing was Step 1 of the 12 Steps..admitting you are powerless...rather than taking control of your life. I liked the idea and others in the book.
Jugging by your screen name, I predict your interaction with AA is not over. In my drinking days I used to scoff that maybe if I kept drinking long enough and lost enough brain cells I'd be able to believe that AA crap...
Not.
But DUI is?
A friend of mine came to a similar conclusion. He came back from Vietnam and switched from weed to beer because beer's legal. When he realized he had a problem, he tried AA, but then went off on his own and beat it. He hasn't had a drink since the early Seventies.