Chris R. (Austin, TX) May 31, 2008

Inaugural Meeting – May 31st, 2008

The meeting featured Chris R, recovered cocaine addict, from Austin, Texas.

The meeting was attended by about 220 participants, over half indicating they were in their first year of recovery. Some topics discussed were powerlessness, our common solution, steps 4 and 5 and sponsorship.

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“We can’t reliably distinguish true memories from false memories,” declares psychologist Elizabeth Loftus who studies memory, but in an unconventional way. “I don’t study when people forget,” she says. “I study when people remember things that didn’t happen. I study false memories.” It’s an issue that comes up often in courts, which highly values witness testimony. In a survey of 300 cases of wrongful conviction, where a person was later exonerated of a crime, three-quarters of them had been incarcerated due to faulty human memory.

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