At that time, I was reluctant to consider any other alternative therapy...I had already been brainwashed by the 12 step people..they even had a Christian version known as Celebrate Recovery, a brainchild of Pastor Rick Warren.
As you have already experienced, addiction cycles are incredibly hard to break. I'd be careful about taking glib advice, which I believe includes the glib advice that crashfrog gave you.
Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also in prison. Thoreau: Civil Disobedience (1846)
The apathy of the people is enough to make every statue leap from its pedestal and hasten the resurrection of the dead. William Lloyd Garrison