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Report on the 2012 LifeRing Congress
To read the report submitted by retiring Executive Director Kathleen Gargan, click here. To read the report offered by Board of Directors...
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May 25, 20123 min read
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LifeRing Website May be Down for Awhile on Night of May 29th
This site may suffer brief periods of down time during a few hours late in the evening on May 29/30. It’s a routine interruption of our...
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May 24, 20121 min read
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New LifeRing Meetings Galore in Sacramento Area!
Also in the greater Sacramento area, there’s a meeting at the Kaiser in Elk Grove, CA, at 5247 East Stockton Blvd.The meeting there is on...
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May 21, 20121 min read
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LifeRing Annual Meeting Was a Big Success
The meeting, held primarily at the very comfortable San Francisco LGBT Center, featured it’s usual mix of organizational work,...
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May 14, 20123 min read
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May 9, 20120 min read
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LifeRing Annual Meeting Fee is Suggested, Not Required
Just to clear up any confusion, the fee that we set for attending the Annual Meeting is suggested, not required. We do need the money,...
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May 4, 20121 min read
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LifeRing Congress may be Lively
As plans for the LifeRing Annual Meeting continue to fall into place, several items promise to arouse discussion at the Sunday LifeRing...
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May 4, 20123 min read
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The Economic Cost of “Excessive” Drinking
report from the American Journal of Preventive Medicine offers some astonishing figure about the cost of “excessive” alcohol consumption...
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Apr 30, 20121 min read
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A LifeRing Keeper: Gratitude
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. ...
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Apr 24, 20122 min read
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LifeRing Annual Meeting Set for May 11, 12, 13 in San Francisco
Every year, LifeRing holds a get-together to handle organization matters, hear guest speakers, and get a chance for us all to come...
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Apr 10, 20122 min read
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New LifeRing Meetings in San Leandro, CA. and Portland, ME
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...
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Apr 9, 20121 min read
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Mar 30, 20120 min read
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New Office Hours for LifeRing
Robert S., our erstwhile office administrator, is changing his hours. The new hours are Tuesdays and Thursdays from 1-4 and Friday, 10-3,...
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Mar 26, 20121 min read
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One in Six Americans Binges on Alcohol at Least Twice a Month, says CDC Head
This is according to Dr. Robert Brewer, head of the CDC’s (Center for Disease Control) Alcohol Program. Brewer was a guest on the NPR...
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Mar 22, 20121 min read
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New LifeRing Meeting in Santa Rosa, CA
Update: I ran this item a week too early. The new Santa Rosa meeting begins March 19. My apologies for those who were misled. — Craig W....
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Mar 9, 20121 min read
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Ten Percent of Americans Say They are “In Recovery”
A new survey finds that 10% of Americans over the age of 18 say they used to have a problem with drugs, including alcohol, but no longer...
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Mar 6, 20121 min read
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A LifeRing Keeper: Why Become a LifeRing Convenor
____ wrote last night about convening LifeRing groups and I thought I’d expand a bit on my own experience. Being in an active group is,...
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Mar 2, 20122 min read
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Millions of American Children Live With Parents Experiencing Alcohol Problems
More than one in ten children in the United States live with a parent who has had an alcohol disorder within the past year, and are at an...
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Feb 23, 20121 min read
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Federal Government’s New Definition of “Recovery”
The full definition can be found by clicking HERE. It deals with recovery from mental illness as well as substance abuse and is general...
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Feb 15, 20121 min read
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A Message From LifeRing’s Executive Director, Kathleen Gargan
Occupying this role during the past year has been a tremendous education for me. I have gained a perspective on LifeRing as a whole that...
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Feb 13, 20122 min read
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