Alcoholics Anonymous Galway will hold an Public ONLINE meeting tomorrow Friday January 8 at 8.00pm, which is open all who have an interest in alcoholism and how Alcoholics Anonymous can help in solving a personal drinking problem or helping someone else to solve such a problem.
The 2021 convention held over the weekend, is online due to the current covid19 restrictions, where it is expected over 700 members attend from all parts of the world.
Every day in some households across County Galway, people are struggling with a real drink problem in the middle of this worldwide emergency. The people turning up for their first Online Meeting are not sleeping on park benches, are not homeless, are usually employed.
Outwardly they appear to have normal lives. Many of them appear to be highly successful with good jobs and a family and a mortgage. They get up, they go to work if they can, or work from home and they drink.
Sometimes they drink at work, or in the house or maybe they have begun to hide their drinking from their colleagues, wives, husbands and their families. Some have started drinking during the day or even seeking relief in that early morning first drink.
A lot of them feel unwell most of the time, a constant low hum of a hangover that gets louder now and again when they have really hit the bottle. They do not know what will happen when they pick up a drink. Sometimes they can control it, sometimes they cannot. For some, it has already passed way beyond any form of control.
Alcoholics Anonymous membership is open to anyone who has a “desire to stop drinking”. Alcoholics Anonymous in Galway can be contacted by telephoning (085 ) 7537 100 from 12 noon to 10pm seven days a week.
These telephones are manned by volunteers. You can visit the Galway AA website at www.galwayaa.com which contains more information on AA fellowship in Galway. You can attend the online Public Open Meeting at Zoom ID: 978 0442 0538.
