Nan Davis reporting in on the IDAA 2006
Minneapolis experience August 2 to 6 .
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International
Doctors in
Alcoholics
Anonymous
I.D.A.A.
IDAA
(International Doctors in Alcoholics
Anonymous):
Pharmacists
in recovery are
accepted
as full members of IDAA. An exception was made in 2005 for pharmacists,
since all pharmacy schools now
require a PharmD. They grandfathered all Pharmacists who are in
recovery and want membership.
Gordon Hyde, MD, IDAA Executive Director, 3311 Brookhill Circle,
Lexington, KY 40502,
859- 277 9379
www.idaa.org
Pharmacist Contacts (attended
IPAA meeting, August
2-6, 2006 -
Minneapolis, Minnesota
:
Nan
D. - nandrx@earthlink.net
Jim A. -
JAlexa1876@aol.com
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IDAA is a group of
approximately 4700 recovering health care professionals of doctorate level
who help one another achieve and maintain sobriety from addictions.
IDAA strongly supports mainstream AA
as the basis for everyone's recovery program and that
needs to be first and foremost. We are not terminally unique!
However, specific issues do
arise for Healthcare
professionals and impaired doctors that are hard to deal with in regular
AA meetings. Many of these
issues are explored in the safe environment of the IDAA annual
meetings and in the online
listgroups on this website. There are no dues or fees for
membership, just the
desire to stay sober and off mood-altering drugs.
MISSION STATEMENT
International Doctors in Alcoholics
Anonymous is a fellowship of doctors and their families whose primary
purpose to support one another in recovery from alcoholism and other drug
addictions.
The IDAA organization provides support
and encouragement through:
