Reliance Center is making our facility available to a lunchtime meeting of LifeRing. LifeRing is a recovery organization that holds groups where recovering individuals can discuss their week in a safe place. It is not AA, or NA. There are no steps or sponsors. there is no need to have a relationship with a “higher power” . The meeting [...]
This is a wonderful article that appeared in today’s New York Times. It’s a little long, but wonderful. Jerry
WASHINGTON — His son had been dead from an overdose only three months when A. Thomas McLellan, among the nation’s leading researchers on addiction, got a call from the office of Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. Would [...]
What’s done is done. It cannot be undone. One of the first things you need to come to terms with when you enter recovery is that the past cannot be remade. The voices (The Committee-you remember The Committee) would like to pull you down with recriminations, useless remorse (addicts are always remorseful), self-pity, and fantasized [...]
Opiate dependence is about a lot more then just using opiates: It has to do with what it is you feel inside that allows opiates to have a SPECIAL EFFECT on you (what I call the POW! Effect”). An effect so powerful, that you almost certainly remember it, from the first time you feel it. [...]
Do you think people with cancer wake up in the morning and the disease tells them they don’t have cancer? Not likely. Do you think people with heart disease wake up in the morning and the disease tells them they don’t have heart disease? I don’t think so. Do you think people with diabetes wake [...]
Up until recently, when a teenager decided to try an illicit substance of some kind, the first was probably marijuana or alcohol. Maybe they had already taken a step that their parents forbade them to do–they smoked a couple of cigarettes.
But today, the top gateway drug is none of these. Instead, it’s the variety of [...]
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Jerry Bayer has a master’s degree in Public Policy from California State University, Sonoma, including a year as a Research Associate at the University of California, Berkeley. He started working in the addiction treatment field in 1970 in the Bronx, New York, and has worked at treatment centers across the country designing, developing and evaluating a wide variety of treatment services and programs... - Read More
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