I don't mean to be disrespectful to anybody, but I don't agree with AA approach, for many and different reasons.
I started drinking when I was 16, I blackout every week and it went on until I was 21.
I, myself, wanted to stop the craziness, so I did, now I drink maybe 2 glasses of wine a week, I never got drunk like that again. Except for a really bad episode I was having and it was either getting drunk or kill myself, so guess what I choose. There are many bp and depressive people in my family, that, in company with a lot of alcoholics.
I know there is a tendency, mainly because we want to feel numb.
But tendencies can change over time, it depends of how much you want to change them.
That is my opinion.