Does AA have a 33% success rate after 10 years?

Clara can see with precision exactly what the problem is, btnben. It's you. You're the problem. You are belligerent and intolerant, snarky and hateful. Who would want to live without the structure of AA or some sort of support group if it meant they were going to turn out like you? You hammer down for answersanswersanswers and don't even give this woman a chance to respond. Then when she does you do a total smackdown, which is driven by your own ridiculous anger that someone dares to disagree with you. Keep it up. The more you keep your tantrum going, the stupider you look.

I've listened close to the yap when I'm around the folks that have no clue of my former drug problems. Can't trust those drug addicts. Rob their own mother. Etc.
Being addicted to pain pills isn't so bad, but h? Slime. Terrible mother, never had a job, stupid, never went to school, untrustworthy.

ROFL....very similar for me! I was roundly laughed at, too, for preferring hydrocodone to oxy. Not to mention that I said I'd been prescribed oxy and it had just made me sick to my stomach. Well, you can imagine those laughs. "You swallowed it? Why didn't you snort it?" followed by, "Wait, you can get it prescribed?".

One of the funny things is how meth is always on the bottom, period. I remember kids on heroin exclaiming that at least they weren't in treatment for meth, people there for alcohol thanking their HP that they weren't there for drugs period, etc. There was a lot of one-upping in both directions, actually, in that regard.

Well, people advise you to identify as either an alcoholic at AA or else an alcoholic and addict. I was told that while some in AA have no problems with addicts being there instead of NA, that some might have a problem and it was best to just avoid it. Also, I think there is a different attitude regarding prescription drug abuse, and I'm not saying this to sound all uppity, but it's also a legal substance that one gets out of hand with. It's not taboo to buy alcohol, nor is it to have a doctor prescribe you painkillers (or whatever else), they're both problems that got out of control without crossing this societal line into illicit substances. And PLEASE don't think that I feel that makes it better or worse than illicit drug use, or me better or worse than the scores of great people I have met in treatment getting off of heroin. We're all addicted to it, it's just that society does view the process slightly differently. Lots in recovery do not, one woman in rehab for pills was congratulated every time in group when she would share that she now knew that "when I went to my doctor and my pharmacist, I was actually going to my DEALER! My pharmacist was my DEALER!". I refused to do the same, needless to say.

Where I live it's completely a socioeconomic and educational level issue. Which goes both ways, too. Many of the NA groups here make it fairly clear that you don't fit in if you aren't, well, very into Harleys. It's VERY biker. And very meth centered. We have a new NA in a better area near me which I'm guessing is probably drawing in less of that crowd, though they band together and hit multiple meetings each night across the entire metro. But it's such a stark difference that even the two hatters around here don't necessarily recommend NA, many recommending AA instead.