This is an interesting article that I posted about back in 2015. I have not seen any follow-up articles and have not researched anything further about this. The "naltrexone angle" and the Finnish approach sounds interesting to me, though.
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazin...irrationality-of-alcoholics-anonymous/386255/
We certainty know more about the brain than when AA was started in 1935. There is much to consider: cost, likelihood of success, inpatient or outpatient, group or individual or family....
Attached is literature review of alcohol treatment.
https://www.princeton.edu/~ota/disk3/1983/8307/830707.PDF