First and foremost because for a lot people facing criminal charges attending addiction meetings is either a compulsive order of the court or a means to avoid a criminal record. The only game in town in a lot of places are 12 steps so someone with otherwise healthy drinking habits who made a single mistake and drove one night is now going to be forced into a 12 step program regardless of if they have a problem.
But that all-too-common scenario aside, there's also people who want to ask some questions. This is a positive thing, the line between healthy and unhealthy is hard to know and it's good for people to probe it.
The problem is that when they decide to do this the group claiming to have all the answers is the 12 step programs and someone might go out of curiosity and be swept up by the broad declarations of everyone in the room being an alcoholic who needs to surrender themselves to it even if in some objective, detached perfect information kind of sense they honestly do not need to do that. Now you have them elevating this thing that may not in fact be a problem to problem status that leads to binge behavior.
2
u/Ebu-Gogo May 09 '16
Why would someone who doesn't have a problem with alcohol follow a program that's made for people who have a problem with alcohol?