Thomas B

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Sober from his primary drug of addiction, Colt .45 — preferably by the case lot — since October 14, 1972, Thomas is grateful for the full life he has experienced in recovery for over 43 years. He’s been active at the group level throughout his recovery and in 1978 was the co-chair of the first New York City Young Peoples Conference. He is a co-founder (with his wife, Jill) and current GSR of Portland, Oregon’s Beyond Belief group.

Retired from a 30-year career in addiction treatment, he and a fellow Vietnam Veteran colleague, Vince Treanor, were instrumental in establishing the correlation between addiction and Post Traumatic Stress Disorder during the 1980s.

He’s been an active participant on AA Agnostica since early in 2012 and has had the following articles published:

First AA Meetings (June 2, 2013)
One’s Religion is An Outside Issue (July 28, 2013)
A Fellowship of the Religious? (April 20, 2014)
Book Review: A Freethinker in AA (May 21, 2014)
Tradition Two: A Flaw in AA Service Structure? (September 28, 2014)
Several Reports from the Santa Monica Conference
Sponsorship in AA (February 22, 2015)
PRAASA 2015 (April 12, 2015)
Bill Wilson’s Experience with LSD (May 10, 2015)

He and his wife, Jill, live in gainful retirement on disability in Seaside, Oregon with their dog Kiera, and two cats, Savannah and Elsa, writing and helping to expand secular AA throughout Oregon.