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[Nature Man]

125. AA teaches powerlessness over alcohol specifically

The disease-model wasn't part of the "program" from its inception in the 1930s until probably the 1970s (I might be mistaken on the timeline).

Early AAs had no use for actual medical doctors and science aside from stabilizing the newly-penitent drunk; in fact, early AAs would attempt detox on their own and administer booze to newly dry individuals to help them taper off from the shakes.

Still, they never fully discounted the medical profession, at least Silkworth, et al in the beginning, so long as the medical establishment was hands off where it concerned AAs mechanism of action. This goes back to the Oxford Groups, probably around the time when Bill W had a drug-induced religious vision which enabled him to spontaneously "recover."

In early AA, recovery was not a process, it was an event. Proselytization was deemed necessary to hold on to and maintain one's "recovered" state.