What was happening before you started ‘using’? 
Abstinence-based programs have helped many people to get away from chemical responses to pain. They most likely don’t directly address what was happening as a child before one started ‘using’ as an adult, and these programs certainly don’t present or identify with the concept of ‘neglect’.

 

While the concepts of: “amends, wrongs, and character defects”, may apply very well to the choices of an adult ‘acting under the influence’, these concepts do not apply well to the effect of neglect occurring in the early years of a child, when there were very few choices, and still fewer actions.