Posts by LifeRing

A recent article in the Washington Post will be of interest to many here. It takes AA to task for being ineffective and sees no real purpose for the entire Rehab industry. The author does accept the ‘illness’ concept and is a University of Virginia psychiatrist with ties to the pharmaceutical industry. But he is…

Visitors to this website are coming from countries across the globe, according to a new web app that tracks visitor locations.  In the three days that this feature has been active, lifering.org has received more than 1100 visitors.  Visitors have logged on to lifering.org from hundreds of different locations in the continental US, from Hawaii…

While in Honolulu recently, I met “Jayne Dough,” a slender young woman dressed in a conservative business suit. She works as an occupational counselor, and I learned that she is among the many successful graduates of Ka Hale Ho‘ala Hou No Na Wahine, a community transition program for women who have served prison time.  She…

M. K., one of the residents of the Ka Hale Ho‘ala Hou No Na Wahine program in Honolulu (see earlier post here and blog item here) was turned down for a job because of her drug-related felony conviction.  On the trip home, her mind was a battlefield between her “old self” (the addictive self or…