Failing to achieve sobriety using AA and other programs that insist alcoholics are powerless over their 'disease' doesn't mean an addict is without hope.
By AMY LEE COY | LOS ANGELES TIMES
[I]n the basement of an old hospital in Inglewood ... I attended my first Alcoholics Anonymous meeting. It was also there that I began my nearly 25-year life-threatening relationship with the doubt-laden belief I was suffering from a "disease" I could never overcome....
The fact is that AA was unable to help me precisely because they were telling me I was powerless and I could never regain full mastery over my own life. It was only after I got out from under the 12 steps and similar ways of thinking that I was able to quit drinking.
