12 Misc.

Today, April 7, 2011, is National Alcohol Screening Day in the United States. The event encourages people who use alcohol to consider their personal drinking patterns to determine if they have an alcohol use problem. The National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH) estimates that, in 2009, 19.3 million individuals needed treatment for alcohol.…

LifeRing’s Online Coordinator, Steve S., recently reported to the board of directors that all of our online venues are doing well. Perhaps it would be worthwhile to give a little attention here to each of the approaches. All of the various online formats share the same goal as our face-to-face (f2f) meetings: to offer support…

LifeRing Canada and its hard-working Executive Director, Michael Walsh, are in the news again. This time it’s an article in the Vancouver newsweekly, The Georgia Strait. See the article by clicking here.

Lars B. reports from Sweden that there has been steady progress in the growth of LifeRing there. There are now 3 meetings in Sweden, split between Stockholm and Malmo. Delegates from the meetings recently met in the first national gathering to discuss strengthening LifeRing Sweden with a website and perhaps start having online chat meetings.