SMART Recovery is a science-based, practical group support community for any recovery (not just alcohol). It is an excellent alternative for people like me that have issues with AA and other 12-Step programs (especially the god issue and many anti-science solution to alcohol/drug abuse. I’ve really enjoyed the meetings that I go to and love that they have practical tactics and strategies that you can employ that are a more useful way for me to combat urges and prevent relapse rather than the 12-Step rhetoric of “call your sponsor, pray or go to a meeting”, which I don’t find helpful at all.

For those in the US with opiate problems, QuickMD may help in conjection with other self improvement activities. QuickMD is a cheap way to get prescribed Suboxone, a partial opiate activator while also blocking anything else from being absorbed by your opiate receptors. You have to be clean a bit before you take it otherwise it’ll throw you into precipitated withdrawal. If you are a serial relapser on opiates, this may be an alternative over a methadone clinic