The recovery program of AA and it's clones proclaim a 5% success rate is a success. The author thinks differently given the continuing unneeded misery this brings. The author decided to ask why and go looking for some answers. This book is the result. It addresses where standard recovery methods encourage failure and provides additional information disregarded by AA that could greatly augment the success rate if implemented. Also discussed are other non-AA recovery programs and self help methods that have shown a higher success rate than AA so the reader has other options to try.