Quote Originally Posted by Breukelen advocaat
AA does not work for the majority of people that try it. They don't like this fact to be known, but it's a failure for most.
Can you cite a reference for your facts, please? Because in what they're teaching in medical schools, these are the standards stats regarding addicion. This information comes from the Diseases of Psychology/Addiction chapter in Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine:

A third of addicts get better.
People who work some sort of program or get some sort of therapeutic help--It doesn't have to be AA, which is certainly far from therapy--are more than four times more likely to succeed than those who don't.
A third of addicts stay about the same.
A third deteriorate.