Posts by The Chief

A report from the American Journal of Preventive Medicine offers some astonishing figure about the cost of “excessive” alcohol consumption in the United States. The report, compiled in 2009/10, looks at 2006 figures and estimates the total cost to the U.S. economy in that year at $223.5 billion. On a per capita basis, that comes…

This is from a message sent to a LifeRing E-mail group: While driving to work today I was thinking about how grateful I am to LifeRing.  It has become a useful tool in my own sobriety plan, helping to keep sobriety in the forefront by conversations, observations, and affirmations.  That has been important in these…

Every year, LifeRing holds a get-together to handle organization matters, hear guest speakers, and get a chance for us all to come together to enjoy each others company. The 2012 Annual Meeting will be held in San Francisco on Friday, Saturday and Sunday, May 11, 12, and 13. Friday and Saturday events will be at…

Two new LifeRing meetings have started, one in California and the other in Maine. The new meeting in San Leandro, south of Oakland in the San Francisco Bay Area, is held each Saturday from 9:30 to 10:30 AM in the Fireside Room at All Saint’s Church, 911 Dowling Blvd. All are welcome to attend. For…