As far as AA goes, I wouldn't recommend it. I think they are a bunch of assholes, in my experience. and studies show that they are no more effective then people who just take the initiative to quit on their own without any kind of program (about 50/50).
First of all they think that only God can make you stop ********. Which in my opinion, not only demoralizes the person by taking their actions completely outside of their control, but also increases the likelihood of failure by taking away their own responsibility for it. By that "logic" If god is supposed to cure you, then he must be the one that made you an alcoholic in the first place, and if you aren't cured, then you are meant to keep going on ********, no matter how you feel about it.
Only they don't call it God, they call it a "Higher Power". that's ironic isn't it? high is a euphemism for being in a chemical induced state. the power, that was high, got you high, so now you want to go to Him to make you not high anymore. Who came up with this ****? he must have been high.