I stopped AA meetings after finding all the 12 steps in the bible. I admit, I used to get depressed over hearing the stories. I would go hit the liquor store after meetings. I have known some people who just turned to smoking weed and others just taking pills (as long as they were not drinking it was ok by them).
Bible study has taken me a long way, and it is free too.
The clergyman came back and told them "This is 1st Century Christianity. Noboduy practices it anymore."
They asked him why.
His response: “It's too damn hard”.