Thanks for your feedback.

Whether that "higher power" is religion or government, both involve 'turning your life over' to their authority and, in the later case, their coercion.

I don't know how many of the religiously based drug treatment programs are publicly funded -- so long as they are privately funded and participation is voluntary, I say carry on.

I think Lysander Spooner made the best case for personal responsibility and freedom in his essay Vices Are Not Crimes