No pharma company in their right mind will be willing to risk the liability of producing a product where the manufacturer bears 100% of the responsibility while those who choose to go down the path of abusing drugs are treated as victims.
AA does do good work, but I think more attention should be given to the differences between groups. Some work better than others. Some take a clinical tone, some have more of a "talking about life at a BBQ" vibe. The ones that provide that sense of community get better results. It shouldn't be up to chance anymore. In the old days it was either a BBQ talk experience or very religious. Now we have this clinic born tone and rhetoric that does not really aid a sense of community.
This is one thing I simply cannot decouple from capitalism. The gymnastics done to avoid mentioning that in these conversations are Olympic level. Why are people isolated and without community? Why are they desperate and depressed? Why do people in pain sell their medication to addicts? Why did one family unleash this plague on us, avoid legal justice and repeatedly tries to position themselves to profit from their victims recoveries, too? Even when we discuss treatments and the funding is always as big a factor as servicing whatever need, however dire. Personally, I can't get a paragraph into this topic without starting to shiver in the cold shadow of capitalism
