The Active Network's acquisition of StarCite, one of the longest-standing and most prominent corporate meetings technology firms and itself an amalgamation of several former competitors, may not ...
Some sources for this story are recovering alcoholics and drug addicts who participate in 12-step programs that emphasize anonymity for their members. Their identities have been obscured. J. has been ...
On the evening of March 5, 2020, I sat in a 12-step meeting in Beverly Hills with more than a hundred other people. While the speaker was sharing, someone coughed. You could feel everybody in the room ...
By: Lee Holley, LMSW, LCDC, PRSS and Breslyn McCrory, BA Source: northlight/Shutterstock Alcohol consumption and sales in America skyrocketed in 2020. With many restaurants and bars closed or their ...
One by one the faces pop up on the computer screen, stacked on top of each other in rows like the start of the old Brady Bunch TV show. Participants laugh and greet each other like the good friends ...
When I finally knew, beyond a shadow of doubt, that I needed to quit drinking, one of the most difficult things I ever did was to walk into a 12-step meeting. It wasn’t the idea of a meeting I found ...
It was time for the coveted sobriety chips, so Grace snapped on a pair of plastic gloves and kept a bit of distance as she doled out medallions to members who had gone 30, 60 and 90 days without a ...
More than a dozen people are interspersed around the dimly lit attic. It’s a disparate group: teachers, doctors, waitresses, high school students and college graduates. But they have one thing in ...
First of all, the purpose of having a meeting must be reflected to avoid succumbing to acute meetingitis, which is too frequent and pointless meetings. You should be able to answer the following ...