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New LifeRing Website in Ireland
LifeRing Ireland has gone through some changes in the past several months and now have a new website. liferingdublin.com is now up,...
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Nov 10, 20111 min read
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Nicotine really is a “Gateway Drug” Says New Study
The idea of “gateway drugs” has been a subject of controversy and ridicule for decades. It’s an argument aimed often at people who use...
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Nov 4, 20111 min read
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“Why I Can’t Drink”
One of the hardest things in recovery is simply to remember how bad life was when drinking. Time passes and the painful memories become...
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Nov 3, 20111 min read
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New Study: “Moderate” Drinking Causes Cancer
An article in the Wall Street Journal provides a good response to those who insist that “moderate” alcohol consumption is good for you....
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Nov 1, 20111 min read
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Alcohol Marketers Target Youth
Here’s part of a piece from an HIV/AIDS blog with information that we’re all probably vaguely aware of, but which bears repeating: While...
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Oct 28, 20111 min read
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A LifeRing Keeper: When Relapses Keep Happening
Here’s a recent posting from LSRmail, the first and largest email group in LifeRing. It’s a response to a member who wrote in after...
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Oct 24, 20113 min read
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Medicare, Medicaid to Cover Screening for Alcoholism, Depression
Here is news that may be of interest both to older readers and ones with older relatives and friends. It’s from the medpagetoday.com...
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Oct 18, 20112 min read
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A Vaccine against addiction?
It’s years in the future if it ever happens, and alcohol and marijuana present special problems that prevent them from being included...
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Oct 4, 20111 min read
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LifeRing Recovery and Procrustes
In ancient Greek mythology there was a roadside bandit named Procrustes who had a bed in which he forced all travelers to lie. Those who...
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Oct 3, 20112 min read
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Dr. B.J. Davis to Speak at CAADAC Conference
Dr. B. J. Davis, Clinical Director of Strategies for Change in Sacramento, will be speaking before the annual conference of the...
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Sep 29, 20112 min read
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Book Review: After the Crises …Second-Nature Sobriety by K.M. Cusack
The goal of the book is to help the recovering addict to make the choice not to drink or use so deeply ingrained as to become second...
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Sep 28, 20111 min read
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Come to the LifeRing meetings at CAADAC!
The meetings are at: 7 AM to 8 AM Thursday September 29 7 AM to 8 AM Saturday October 1 Bondi Room Sheraton Grand Hotel Downtown...
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Sep 26, 20111 min read
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Letter From Pelican Bay Prison
Recently, we’ve added to that program by starting a more old-fashioned service: pen pals for people who lack computer access. That...
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Sep 20, 20114 min read
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“To Drink, or not to Drink, That is the Question … “
To drink, or not to drink–that is the question: Whether ’tis nobler in the mind to suffer The joys and sorrows of outrageous reality ...
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Sep 15, 20111 min read
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Sep 13, 20110 min read
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Former Obama Official Offers His View of Recovery
In an appearance in New Zealand, President Obama’s former deputy drug “czar” Tom McLellan made some interesting points about “recovering”...
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Sep 2, 20112 min read
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LifeRing’s First Vermont Meeting Starts
The first LifeRing meeting in Vermont becomes a reality on Sept. 1, 2011, in St. Johnsbury, in the northeastern part of the State. It’s...
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Aug 31, 20111 min read
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A LifeRing Keeper: Coming Out of Hiding
Some of the LifeRing online venues allow members to post relatively long comments and some of these are very well written and...
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Aug 24, 20112 min read
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New Meeting Site for Antioch, CA
The Monday noon LifeRing meeting in Antioch, CA, is moving to a new location. Starting on Aug. 22nd, it will meet at: Kaiser – Delta Fair...
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Aug 17, 20111 min read
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New LifeRing E-mail Group for Scandinavians
LSR-Scandinavia has been created for the growing number of LifeRing members living in the Scandinavian countries — Sweden, Norway and...
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Aug 5, 20111 min read
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