I do not think it would be helpful. I am extremely turned off to the idea of AA because I have read the 12 steps and I feel it is a religious institution and I think it is deplorable that something so clearly based in religion is something that is the first line of action is a treatment that requires religion.

Yes, I know people will argue that I can look at it in a secular way but I oppose it on principle. I know myself well enough to know that I would not be able to look past the fact that "god" is incorporated in most of the steps. I do not want to participate in something that is so blatantly exclusionary to people like myself. It won't happen unless I am forced to do it which I think is reprehensible and unconstitutional that people can go through a US court for a DUI or something and then be forced to partake in a group based on religious dogma that requires you to embrace religious dogma in order to work.

If AA works for other people, that's great. But it isn't something I'm going to do.