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The LifeRing Board of Directors has approved the dates and venues for the 2011 Annual Meeting: June 3, 4 and 5 primarily at a meeting room in the Kaiser Hospital in Oakland, CA, at Howe St. and MacArthur. The room, on the 12th floor, has a lovely view of Lake Merritt. The event this year…

The World Health Organization has just released a “Global Status Report on Alcohol and Health” which finds that 2.5 million people worldwide die each year from alcohol use. “Alcohol consumption is the world’s third largest risk factor for disease and disability; in middle-income countries, it is the greatest risk. Alcohol is a causal factor in…

Even if you have assiduously avoided learning anything about Twitter, the wildly popular vehicle for sending brief updates about the important developments in your life (“PB&J for lunch again today. OMG – bread so stale!”) you’ll want to sign up for LifeRing’s Twitter messages. Get a peek and sign up HERE .

Here is a new way to help LifeRing move forward: help in the re-writing and editing of one of our most important publications — “How Was Your Week? Bringing People Together in Recovery the LifeRing Way, a Handbook.” The author is Martin Nicolaus, a leading founder and longtime CEO of LifeRing Secular Recovery. As we…