Sex-addiction treatment is designed to help people with impulse-control issues and, like Alcoholics Anonymous, focuses on abstinence and avoiding triggers.
Other communities for people trying to address their compulsive shopping include Shoplifters Anonymous, a 12-step community that is modeled after Alcoholics Anonymous and meets by videoconference every week.
Alcoholics Anonymous is a group of people who get together in their community or their neighborhood to help each other with their problem of alcoholism.
Just consider how trivial it would be for a government agency to put a surveillance camera outside a building where people meet for Alcoholics Anonymous meetings.
And they were going to Alcoholics Anonymous, they were going to the Salvation Army, and they were going out to all sorts of huge international Christian groups and leagues.