stick with AA or NA, not the splinters — "their extremely specific Substance-focus tends to…"
their extremely specific Substance-focus tends to narrow the aperture of recovery and focus too much on abstinence from just one Substance instead of complete sobriety and a new spiritual way of life in toto.
Context
The doctrine's insistence on breadth over specificity: the Staff steers residents away from single-substance splinters toward AA or NA, because narrowing recovery to one Substance misses the point — "complete sobriety and a new spiritual way of life in toto." The Program's claim that the drug is never really the problem, so abstaining from one drug is never really the cure.