Oct 05
Wednesday this week, Oct. 2, I celebrated 21 years clean and sober. Well, I didn’t exactly celebrate. I went to a legal education program at the San Francisco Federal Building in the late afternoon, then walked over to the Mission district to see what I thought was a film about German postwar radicalism, but turned …
Aug 27
Barry Hazle served a year in prison for possession of methamphetamine. He was released on parole on condition that he attend and complete a 90-day residential drug treatment program. Hazle repeatedly told authorities that he is an atheist, and requested treatment in a non-religious program. He was assigned, instead, to the Empire treatment program which …
Mar 23
My narration of Empowering Your Sober Self, the LifeRing Approach to Addiction Recovery, is published at last. You can get it: At audible.com At amazon.com At iTunes (search audiobooks for “Nicolaus LifeRing”) The audio runs 6:45 (six hours and 45 minutes). I have no control over the price, which is higher than the print edition. …
Oct 02
It gives me great pleasure to celebrate today, Oct. 2 2012, my 20th anniversary clean and sober. This milepost, which once seemed so dim and remote, is now a present reality, and I feel an inner glow of happiness and empowerment. Truly, getting sober is among the very best decisions I have made in my …
Sep 25
An article I wrote late last year about the LifeRing recovery group has now been published in the Journal of Groups in Addiction and Recovery, Vol. 7, 2012. This is a special double issue on the theme “Broadening the Base of Addiction Mutual Support Groups: Bringing Theory and Science to Contemporary Trends.” This is the …
Aug 22
Two years after my retirement as CEO of LifeRing, the organization invited me to speak at its annual meeting in San Francisco on May 12. As is obvious to readers of this website, one of my influences in the past year has been the Occupy movement. My talk is a blend of my experience and …
Apr 24
In October 2010, I had the honor to present a lecture on addiction at a psychiatric hospital in Victoria BC. The 8 a.m. “Grand Rounds” lecture arose out of my work on addiction in connection with LifeRing Secular Recovery. That chapter of my life story remains to be written. My hosts, the able LifeRing Canada …
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