12 Misc.

Another new LifeRing meeting has come to Ireland, this time in Killorglin in County Kerry, on the Southwest of the Island. It joins several meetings in Dublin and Cork, along with Clonakilty and, in Northern Ireland, Belfast. The new group meets each Wednesday evening at 7:30 at The Manor Inn Hotel in Killorglin. They began…

A new study — on mice, not people — shows promising results with the use of a drug called Mifepristone to reduce relapse stemming from high stress levels. The drug was initially commercialized by the name RU-486, a drug that is widely used for inducing terminations of pregnancy. “It seems to impede the activity of…

The MSN website carried an article by Maia Szalavitz recently that should be of great interest to those seeking an overview of addiction that looks deeper than “spiritual weakness.” It’s a bit long, but worth the effort. Here it is: Although addiction and alcoholism treatment research has advanced tremendously since Alcoholics Anonymous was founded in…

LifeRing Ireland has gone through some changes in the past several months and now have a new website. liferingdublin.com is now up, replacing the old liferingireland site. It shares a design, and some content, with the liferingCork.com site. The new site has a very nice look to it and may provide some ideas for this…