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Seeking an Individual who thrives in a challenging, stimulating, and rewarding environment.
Qualifications: A person with 6 month sobriety with a desire to convene a meeting of, and interact with, a delightful, funny, highly entertaining and thoughtfully provocative bunch of former drunks and drug addicts. Time: Meets every Tuesday @ 6:35 pm. Place: Oakland CDRP, Room 5, 969 Broadway, Oakland, CA (Right next to BART, 2nd floor…
Read MoreEconomic Costs of Excessive Alcohol Consumption
An article in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine presents some stark numbers about the costs borne by the U.S. economy due to drinking. The study looked at drinking in the following context: “Excessive alcohol consumption was defined as follows: binge drinking (≥4 drinks per occasion for a woman, and ≥5 drinks per occasion for…
Read MoreDenver Adds Two New LifeRing Meetings
The 11th and 12th LifeRing meetings in the Denver, CO, area began this month. One is at the Denver Cares, the detox facility for Denver County Health, located at 1155 Cherokee St., Denver, 80204. Meetings there take place at 3:30 p.m. every Wednesday. Contact person for the meeting is Tom Jarrell and he can be…
Read MoreReport on the 2012 LifeRing Congress
As part of our Annual Meeting, LifeRing holds its yearly Congress where certain organizational matters are dealt with by official delegates. Delegates include current embers of the board and current Regional Representatives, plus elected representatives of each open LifeRing meeting, face-to-face or online. The Congress hears reports from each of the delegates about the state…
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