Practicing altruism, or agape love over eros love, requires willingness and the wherewithal that is, unfortunately, too often unrealistic (unless you're a monk in a monastery [a point noted in 'the Brothers Karamazov']). So it's not hard to see how one might lose their way. But AA co-founder Bill W.'s resorting to LSD in sobriety (along with wife Lois, Father Dowling, and other AA's; see AA's 'Pass It On'), believing it to improve one's relationship with God, certainly raises a red flag about AA. Yet ephemeral secular alternatives leave the choice AA, Celebrate Recovery, or Siberia. Of course AA can be helpful, though so can praying on one's knees 5X/day in a mosque ostensibly. Will that be next?