The court-ordered AA/NA thing is such BS...that was actually how I first encountered AA/NA. I got a drug charge and they ordered me to attend weekly AA/NA meetings, as a condition of my probation. Either or, I simply choose AA because there were more meetings than NA (and, in a city with a metro area larger than 1 million, there were many meetings every day). It was so pointless...I resented being forced to attend those meetings and, since alcohol is one substance that I've never had a problem with (I hate the feeling of being "drunk" 99% of the time) I didn't feel like I had anything in common with any of the people in attendance.
They also made me take intensive outpatient drug treatment. My possession of a controlled substance charge was for THC, and the first day I was in that program I had a conversation with a guy who had 1 day sober from IV heroin...supposedly he had been sleeping on a mattress under a highway overpass, slamming dope all day and panhandling. One day I saw him strike up a conversation with another person I knew was there for IV heroin, then about two weeks later both of them vanished from the program. Another woman was in there because she got blackout drunk, got behind the wheel of her car and plowed into a parked cop car, putting the cop (who was sitting in the driver's seat at the time) into intensive care at the hospital. So those were the kinds of substance abusers I was grouped in with, after getting busted for possession of hashish 8)
The whole experience left me embittered and ultimately probably did more harm than good, when it came to keeping me away from drugs...that's why I've always been opposed to that kind of thing
The man who teached the outpatient program was actually a really good guy, though. He was a former cocaine dealer/cocaine addict who had spent a lot of time in prison in both Detroit and Texas (where I lived at that time), had caught lots of charges in his using days, been shot at etc. He was just a really compassionate individual who treated everyone with respect & spoke with a voice of real authenticity when it came to issues surrounding drugs and addiction. The one thing he said that's always stuck with me is that you have got to be want to be sober for YOU, not for anyone else (i.e. your girlfriend/boyfriend/wife/husband, your family, the criminal justice system, etc)...until the desire to abstain from problematic substance usage originates from a genuine individual desire, you're more likely to fail in your efforts. Still believe that to this day. It's a long-term goal of mine to write a letter to that guy and thank him for some of his insights actually, I still remember his name...