[chriscappuccio]

Maybe at the point when this guy figured out that drinking a fifth a day was bad, and his insurance company was a piece of shit, he could have thought, I'll do something else. Jujitsu ? AA ? Heck, go to a church. Try one of those cheap ketamine clinics if you have to...come on, there are so many ways... I get it, you have insurance and it would be nice to use it but many, many medical interventions are flawed and the services are not going to fix your life for you. As this poor guy unfortunately discovered when he thought that his plan was going to help. No, it probably won't, and even a good provider may not be of much help.

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I think it's worth seriously considering the possibility that that he felt like he was at the end of his rope partly because he did try a bunch of other things and none of them substantially helped. Especially considering that he moved out of downtown Austin, where there was presumably no shortage of options. The article mentions that he hadn't found a "new" AA group in Phoenix, which wouldn't make sense unless he had one previously.