God is a Sock
Addiction programs are often based on a 12 step plan. Unfortunately for atheists these plans include giving up control to a ‘higher power’. Lip service is given to the idea that this higher power can be anything you like. They say it can be a door knob, if you like. This takes a bad situation and introduces the absurd to it.
Rational Recovery eliminates the need for a higher power and offers a different approach to dealing with addiction. Its writer, Jack Trimpey, studied numerous addicted people who had spontaneously stopped using drugs or alcohol to try to figure out how they had done it (spontaneously means without outside help). The book is not written from an explicitly atheist point of view but it does not require magical intervention. Self reliance, effort and self monitoring is required.
This is not to say that 12 step plans with supernatural higher powers doesn’t work for some people. We need to make as many options as possible available to people who need help with substance addiction. For people who do not believe in god/s, god based plans are difficult to follow.