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The 2013 LifeRing Annual Meeting will take place next Friday, Saturday and Sunday, May 31, June 1 and 2, in Denver, CO. Friday will primarily be devoted to talk of strengthening the organization, with presentations by LifeRing’s Executive Director Robert Stump on “organic growth,” a lunch session led my Secretary Tim Reith and Board candidate…

Sometimes those seeking sobriety also suffer from emotional and mental challenges that can make recovery more difficult. LifeRing Secular Dual Recovery — the latest addition to LifeRing’s E-mail Group offerings — is a safe place to discuss those highly personal issues among people who may not share the particular problem, but who understand what it’s…

“The results from the first nationwide survey of persons in recovery from addiction to alcohol and other drugs released today by Faces & Voices of Recovery documents the heavy costs of addiction to the individual and the nation and for the first time, measures and quantifies the effects of recovery over time.” That’s the opening…

A new LifeRing meeting aimed at supporting people in their effort to quit smoking will start early next month in Oakland.  The meeting will follow the basic LifeRing format and use sections of the LifeRing Recovery by Choice Workbook. Anna L. will convene the meeting at the Kaiser Chemical Dependency Recovery Program (CDRP), 969 Broadway, Oakland,…