While I can't speak for AA, I know there are many, many people taking drugs for other diagnoses. That seems to finally be accepted.

The definition of addict is, briefly, that if the use of mood and/or mind-altering drugs results in adverse consequences in ANY area of their life AND that person continues to use, they are an addict.

The meds for bi-polar do not result in adverse consequences. Neither do anti-depressants, and neither are addictive. Two ways to demonstrate that are:

1: There is NO market for those things "on the street". And the street is a knowledgeable marketplace.

2: There is NO "high" from them.

But, it's been a slow learning process. My experience has been that Chemical Dependency professionals now see the necessity for drugs for other diagnoses, where they didn't before, and the medical community is still resistant about them for addicts, where at one time they believed only the "drug of choice" was a problem..