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LifeRing Featured in Canadian Newspaper
LifeRing Canada’s Executive Director Michael Walsh was featured in a story in the Saanich News, a community newspaper on Vancouver Island in British Columbia, Canada. The story, which you can see HERE, discusses the cost of alcohol addiction in terms … Continue reading
LifeRing in the News in Canada
LifeRing Canada and its hard-working Executive Director, Michael Walsh, are in the news again. This time it’s an article in the Vancouver newsweekly, The Georgia Strait. See the article by clicking here.
Drinking on the Job as an Employee Benefit?
The San Francisco Chronicle, the major newspaper in the Bay Area, carried an article in its Sunday edition that raises some concerns about the culture surrounding the high tech industries that often seem to be re-shaping the world. The article, … Continue reading
LifeRing Canada Garners Print and TV News Coverage
LifeRing in Victoria has popped up in two different news venues this past week. The Victoria Times Colonist newspaper did a story on the recent IdeaWave conference (previously discussed here) and featured, among others, a presentation by Michael Walsh, LifeRing … Continue reading
Tweet, Tweet! LifeRing is on Twitter!
Even if you have assiduously avoided learning anything about Twitter, the wildly popular vehicle for sending brief updates about the important developments in your life (“PB&J for lunch again today. OMG – bread so stale!”) you’ll want to sign up … Continue reading
LifeRing on the Radio
LifeRing’s Regional Representative for the East Coast, Mona H., made an appearance on a Greenwich, CT, radio station recently. Mona has started several LifeRing meetings in Greenwich and has become involved in some of the regional organizations that seek to … Continue reading
LifeRing Canada Moving Forward
Things are hopping in Victoria, BC, Canada. Martin Nicolaus, a founder of LifeRing and its leader from the beginning until this past summer, will be visiting Victoria from Oct. 4th – 7th for a series of events, including a lecture … Continue reading
Washington Post Article Challenges AA Approach
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 … Continue reading
LifeRing gets website plug
Kudos to Dianna Narciso, blogger for the website examiner.com of San Francisco (no relation to the Examiner newspaper) for mentioning LifeRing among “rational alternatives to AA” in her article on the 75th anniversary of AA. Her article asks the important … Continue reading
Alcoholics Anonymous and the Counseling Profession: Philosophies in Conflict
By Christine Le, Erik P. Ingvarson, and Richard C. Page From Journal of Counseling & Development, 07-01-1995, p. 603. This article describes the contribution of Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) to drug and alcohol treatment. The potential for AA ‘s steps to encourage growth … Continue reading
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Tagged 12-step program, Alcoholics Anonymous, media, philosophy, Treatment
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