Misinformation at some of the drug treatment websites indicates that quite a few addicts are involved in administering drug treatment. That’s not the kind of help that many parents would want to send their daughters to.
Well, Alcoholics Anonymous is run by alcoholics. That’s how these things usually work. Junkies don’t tend to take advice from someone who has lived life on the straight and narrow, but they might respect someone who has gone through the same things they have.