Workshop: Disease of Alcoholism - presented by Doctors who are AA Members

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🗓️ 23 July 2024

⏱️ 69 minutes

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This workshop is a little different, presented by three doctors two MD's and one Psychiatrist, all of them members of AA. There is some Q & A after the second speaker, I cut the questions out (impossible to hear) but he does a great job of repeating them. This was the 9th. Central Florida Workshop held 2010. Coming up this month: The Washington State Conference for Young People in AA - WSCYPAA VII. In Tacoma WA. July 26-28. Details: https://scast.us/wscypaa7 The 32nd Annual Fellowship of Spirit Conference in Estes Park Colarado July 25-28. Details: https://scast.us/fotsco If you have any AA or Al-Anon event coming up let me know I am happy to help get the word out. https://scast.us/event Support Sober Cast: https://sobercast.com/donate Email: sobercast@gmail.com 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 2600+ 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 Soebecast, where we provide AA speaker meetings and workshops in
0:11.2	podcast format.
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0:20.0	and drop a dollar or two into our virtual basket.
0:22.0	We hope you enjoy the podcast.
0:23.6	Have a great day.
0:24.6	Hey, I'm an alcoholic and a drug addict.
0:29.6	And I have to be up here at the microphone so they can record this.
0:34.2	I kind of feel awkward because it's a real small group.
0:37.0	It'd be better to be down there.
0:39.6	Nonetheless, at any rate, I said, my name's Dale. I'm an alcoholic and a drug addict and what I do for a living is I practice medicine and I'm always trying to be very clear on that
0:53.0	practicing medicine being a doctor is what I do for a living.
0:57.2	It's not who I am.
0:59.2	And so I've been in recovery for a long time.
1:03.2	I have an interesting story.
1:04.2	I mean, most physicians get very little training in alcoholism.
1:08.3	I got very good training in alcoholism.
1:11.6	As by done luck, my sophomore year, they set up an elective and they sent me down to work at the state alcohol rehab hospital in Avon Park for a month.
1:21.0	Work there for a month. And they had to find a cheap place for me to live, so they put me up in a halfway
1:26.5	house. While I was staying at the halfway house, I was drinking at the time, but I went to some AA meetings purely as a matter of academic interest of course, not
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