That's a wonderful aspect of recovery today. Most of the programs including AA have online meetings. You can do a search or find their web sites in my book. While most of the people in Sober For Good had no problem refering to themselves as alcoholic there were many of them who did not see themselves this way. Some of them saw themselves as problem drinkers or former alcoholics.
Labels can get in the way of people seeking help for a drinking pronlem.
Over and over people said the important thing was seeing the connection between alcohola nd the problems they were having. When they saw that they can do something about it. The research suggests that relapse is much less likely after five or six yers of sobriety. The average length or sobrity of people in the book was actually 13 years. Recovery is ongoing process to learn to live with our fellows with joy and sober.