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Why It’s Okay To HATE Alcoholic’s Anonymous

If you develop a drinking problem, where do you go?

Don't say Alcoholics Anonymous until you read this!

The answer to problem drinking has never been the obvious choice. The initial pioneers turned up with a fantastic desire for bourbon and lots of it. In the early times of the nation, alcohol was among the few drinks that were dependably risk-free from pollution. (It was also less expensive than coffee beans or tea.)

The writer W. J. Rorabaugh has approximated that between the 1770s and 1830s, the typical American citizen over age 15 downed at least 5 gallons of pure alcohol a year, the rough equivalent of 3 shots of hard whiskey a day. Religious eagerness, assisted due to the introduction of communal water-filtration systems, helped arouse the soberness movement, which ended in 1920 with Prohibition.

That venture stopped after 14 years, but the heavy drinking way of life it cultivated lingers to this day.

AA has become the default solution for problem drinking BUT it was never designed for that.

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