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LifeRing Member Pens “Choice of Support” Article in Online Magazine
A member of, and convenor for, LifeRing has written an article that was published in “Secular News Daily,” an online magazine. The article, entitled “When it comes to Sobriety, a Choice of Support” was written by Byron Kerr, who has started several LifeRing meetings in the Santa Rosa, CA, area and is now concentrating his…
A Doctor Who “Gets it” About Offering Choice in Recovery
A recent article in ASAMagazine, an online publication that bills itself as “The Voice of Addiction Medicine” features words that are music to the ears of those who believe in the need for doctors and treatment professionals to offer real choices to their patients and clients. “I have seen many of my colleagues view 12-step…
Video of Martin Nicolaus Lecture Returns to this Website
A video of a lecture given by LifeRing’s founding leader Martin Nicolaus in Victoria, Canada, is now available again. The talk was given to a group of medical professionals at ‘Psychiatric Grand Rounds’ at the Eric Martin Institution in October of 2010. It provides a very good look at the intellectual underpinning of LifeRing. view…
Survey Results Highlight the Cost of Addiction and the Benefits of Recovery
“The results from the first nationwide survey of persons in recovery from addiction to alcohol and other drugs released today by Faces & Voices of Recovery documents the heavy costs of addiction to the individual and the nation and for the first time, measures and quantifies the effects of recovery over time.” That’s the opening…
Study Finds Most People in the World Don’t Drink Alcohol
An article on the website www.sciencedaily.com says, “A new study by the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) shows that alcohol is now the third leading cause of the global burden of disease and injury, despite the fact most adults worldwide abstain from drinking.” The article goes on to cite more material from the…
A LifeRing Keeper: A Poem From an Irish Convenor
Philip H., a LifeRing convenor in Belfast, Northern Ireland, wrote this chilling poem about his late former wife: Powerlessness Two dead mice. One fresh, one slowly desiccating. Its head chewed, eyeless. A new lock on the dingy door and new keys. Inside the wooden floor was covered in something dark, like tar. A chair upended.…
Spring LifeRing Newsletter Published
Carola Ziermann, editor, has published the newest LifeRing Newsletter. This quarter’s edition feature stories about the upcoming LifeRing Annual Meeting in Denver at the end of May, along with an explanation of proposed bylaw changes that will enable elected delegates to vote on candidates and issues raised at the LifeRing Congress, held on the last…
Martin Nicolaus Talks About LifeRing
Late last year, LifeRing’s founding leader, Martin Nicolaus, addressed a group of San Francisco Bay Area meeting convenors. His words, as usual, eloquently present the LifeRing approach.
“Quitting Smoking for Good”
LifeRing doesn’t treat smoking like alcohol and other drugs. We recognize the severe damage it does, and it clearly is an addiction, but we havc all we can do dealing with drinking and drug use. Still, it’s worthwhile to remind ourselves that addiction is addiction, whether it’s alcohol, nicotine or caffeine. Here is an informative…