Add up the years of costs for therapy, rehab, detox, alcohol, job losses, divorce, family estrangement etc. That's cheap?
If you know of anything that is guaranteed, I am sure everyone would love to hear of it. I just know people that it worked for. And that the initial success rate for this program is about 90% at time of end of treatment...not enough follow up for more data. They used to have a guarantee that gave a repeat treatment for people who didn't have sucess with the first one, discontinued it since no one ever used it in all the years it was available.
Excuse me if I thought people were interested in hearing about more than AA and the miracles of willpower! Keep on keeping on, I'm sure a few people will be helped in the usual ways.