Of course not. Actually he was complaining that after all that work, a patient would go on a bender, which would so scramble their brain chemistry that it would set them back months. He then went into an extended rant against alcohol.
Importantly, this was in the 1980s, in which the number of medicines available was just a fraction of the number in use today. And some were “shotgun” solutions to “BB gun” problems, but were desperately needed. So a lot of it was experiment and guess work.
Brain chemistry, aside- the book of Alcoholics Anonymous was written by people, that have done more for the “benders”, than anyone in oral or written history. Apparently, a spiritual recovery is foremost- in realigning a healthy physical/mental condition.