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Addiction & Recovery

Stuart G

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15. I got into AA in 2006, no booze since then..so I go to all kinds of meetings.

Reply to yallerdawg (Reply #12)

Mon Sep 17, 2018, 06:24 PM

Sep 2018

Nice people, interesting meetings..No I don't believe it all, but I work the steps and try my very best. When you combine the AA and the OA together, well I think the two have really helped to keep me alive. You really don't have to buy the whole thing...Just Keep Going to Meetings..and listen.. took me a while to get that one...Why? because I thought I knew it all..and now I realize how much I have to learn, and can learn if ........
....I listen and read...

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Safest level of alcohol consumption is none, worldwide study shows [View all] yallerdawg Aug 2018 OP

So I am going to die? mikeysnot Aug 2018 #1

Yes. Someday, just like the rest of US. democratisphere Aug 2018 #3

I'm afraid I'll die of nothing. How would that look? IADEMO2004 Aug 2018 #2

No matter how much/many chemicals/food/other things you use to fill up your 'nothing' spot irisblue Aug 2018 #6

I agree that "nothing spot" needs to be filled with something more than chemicals, or food. Stuart G Sep 2018 #13

Then you might have missed a lot of fun. 3Hotdogs Aug 2018 #9

Guinness bread I make uses one and a half bottles. Guinness before 7am common here. IADEMO2004 Aug 2018 #10

Fun is in the eyes of the beholder..What was once "fun" quickly becomes an "addiction" Stuart G Sep 2018 #14

duh. unblock Aug 2018 #4

Depends on person & diet & type of drink. Study is balancing heart disease against cancer. Bernardo de La Paz Aug 2018 #5

I once read an article that made the argument that the only reason human kind started farming Farmer-Rick Aug 2018 #7

FREE MARIJUANA FOR EVERYONE! fleur-de-lisa Aug 2018 #8

Just read a similar article Rhiannon12866 Aug 2018 #11

I've been practicing the safest level of alcohol consumption since October 1980. yallerdawg Aug 2018 #12

I got into AA in 2006, no booze since then..so I go to all kinds of meetings. Stuart G Sep 2018 #15