At http://www.aarecoverymedallionengraving.com, visitors can order their very own, customized and engraved AA medallion. The good people at AA Recovery Medallion Engraving serve hundreds of clients and engrave all sorts of messages on traditional AA medallions. “As we trudge the road to happy destiny we mark our time away from our last drink with a [...]
Continue Reading...We don’t discriminate here at The AA Blog and although we consider ourselves the premier Alcoholics Anonymous blog, we’ll always feature and recommend other AA Blogs that we think you’ll find interesting and helpful. However, according to Google, the top 5 AA Blogs aren’t very helpful at all (with one exception). Here are the [...]
Continue Reading...It’s all fun and games until somebody gets shot. A man who tried to rob a group of people in a South Carolina AA meeting at gun point was fatally shot by an AA member with a concealed weapon earlier this month. Kayson Helms, 18, died from the gunshot wound after being hospitalized shortly after [...]
Continue Reading...Going out doesn’t always have to be about getting drunk, and no one seems to understand this concept better than the people at SoberNightLife.com. This site is a community of sober individuals who like to have fun just like everyone else… minus the drinking and drug use. “Sobernightlife.com was created and started to be a [...]
Continue Reading...With a great guitar tuning widget, a sober arcade and up-to-date news, SoberMusicians.com is not only one of the most prominent sober sites on the web, but undoubtedly one of the most entertaining as well. The following is straight form the Sober Musicians website: “Our aim is to help one another. Although you will see [...]
Continue Reading...Many people feel strange when going to their first A.A. meeting. Some people think they are too young to be in alcoholics anonymous. Others feel embarrassed or haven’t been drinking for very long. There are even members of Alcoholics Anonymous who never really drank “hard” liquor. At Alcoholics Anonymous, you soon learn that it really [...]
Continue Reading...It was a late night in Beverly Hills, California for Richie Supa and the gang at InTheRooms.com as they eagerly awaited the announcement of the 2009 Prism Awards “Song of the Year”. The annual Prism Awards recognizes excellence in music, television and movies in the realm of addiction, recovery and mental health. Richie Supa performed [...]
Continue Reading...The recent drinking and driving (DUI) arrests of celebrities—Paris Hilton, Nicole Ritchie, Michelle Rodriguez and Lindsay Lohan—yielded widespread news coverage, however, very little of it offered any public health context, according to a new report by researchers from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health’s Center for Injury Research and Policy. Analyzing stories reported [...]
Continue Reading...Assembly Bill 1019 is a proposal to impose a fee on the beer, wine, and liquor industries to mitigate the billions in costs to Californians for alcohol-related problems. The bill advances to its first hearing this legislative session today before the California State Assembly Health Committee. Revenue from the fee would be used to establish [...]
Continue Reading...Alcohol Responsibility Conference 2009 – Solutions for Promoting Responsible Alcohol Consumption (ARC 2009) will be held in Walt Disney World, Florida on September 29 – October 1, 2009. In 2007, HCI (providers of the TIPS program) brought together people representing a variety of perspectives on alcohol issues from across the country to discuss methods and [...]
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