Topic: How Not To Die Of Alcoholism

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🗓️ 29 April 2025

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Tim M from London sharing on the topic of "How Not To Die Of Alcoholism" at the broken elevator zoom meeting held in March of 2023. Support Sober Cast: https://sobercast.com/donate Email: [email protected] Event List: https://scast.us/event Roundup, retreat, convention or workshop coming up? List the event on the Sober Cast website. Visit the link above and look for "Submit Your Event" in the blue box. Sober Cast has 2700+ episodes available, visit SoberCast.com to access all the episodes where you can easily find topics or specific speakers using tags or search. https://sobercast.com

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to Sobercast, where we provide A.A. Speaker Meetings and workshops in podcast format.
0:12.7	We're an ad-free podcast, and if you enjoy listening, please help us be self-supporting by visiting Sobercast.com, look for the link, and drop a dollar or two into our virtual
0:21.7	basket.
0:22.3	We hope you enjoyed the podcast.
0:23.7	Have a great day.
0:27.0	Thank you very much.
0:28.6	My name is Tim.
0:29.5	I'm an alcoholic.
0:31.9	And Al-Anon doesn't hurt either.
0:40.3	My date of sobriety is the 24th of July, 1993. I first started to give up alcohol in around July 1990.
0:47.3	It took three years to put the plug in the jug.
0:53.3	I was 18 when I first encountered sufficiently severe problems to need to
1:02.6	stop. As I say, it took three years to actually stop. I'm in my 50s now. The topic, how not to die of alcoholism.
1:12.6	There are three elements to this.
1:14.6	What is alcoholism?
1:16.6	What does dying of alcoholism mean?
1:18.6	And how do you not do it?
1:22.6	Now, the first part of that, what is alcoholism?
1:25.6	You'd think it would be a straightforward thing to explain in an AA meeting
1:31.5	with so many people here who've been in AA for such a long time.
1:36.6	I know there are some new people as well.
1:40.5	And people who are returning or have been struggling with not drinking,
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