Was coming here to suggest that very thing Lolie. Nowhere near as widely available as NA / AA but certainly a damn sight more in the U.S. than it is here in the U.K. and even I had a meeting or two available.
TestofSanity, I can't get past certain things NA / AA asks you to believe either, like your own powerlessness against an addiction only some power external to yourself can cure for instance and didn't get much out the meetings either. War stories are all well and good but just war stories, they offered little useful as far as I was concerned and I could read the Big Book at home. What they did absolutely offer was good talks before and after the more structured meeting with others in the same boat very much prepared to offer their support beyond the confines of the meeting out here in the real world. I met some really cool, sincere people offered the hand of friendship and their mobile numbers pretty much day one. Groups like that are potentially a great support network if nothing else and you may well find other alternative groups like SMART Recovery for example near you with a different ethos entirely, aimed purely at helping you develop effective coping strategies for your triggers, some like SMART modelled on a CBT type approach, same support network on offer. Could be worth a shot if you do, what can it hurt?
