{"id":8273,"date":"2016-09-22T09:28:23","date_gmt":"2016-09-22T09:28:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/?p=8273"},"modified":"2016-11-16T23:54:03","modified_gmt":"2016-11-16T23:54:03","slug":"2016-10-09","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/2016-10-09\/","title":{"rendered":"Is addiction a choice, a disease, or a morality issue?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><strong>Byron Kerr<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><strong>October 9, 2016<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Byron Kerr from LifeRing Secular Recovery (www.lifering.org) will discuss the work of LifeRing, which is an abstinence-based, worldwide network of individuals seeking to live in recovery from addiction to alcohol or to other non-medically indicated drugs.  LifeRing offers peer-to-peer support that encourages personal growth and continued learning through personal empowerment (e.g., by developing, refining, and sharing personal strategies for continued abstinence and crafting a rewarding life in recovery).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/191850602\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/191850602\">Humanist Community Forum (2016-10-09): Is addiction a choice, a disease, or a morality issue? (Byron Kerr)<\/a> from <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/user2798508\">Humanist Community-SiliconValley<\/a> on <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\">Vimeo<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Byron Kerr October 9, 2016 Byron Kerr from LifeRing Secular Recovery (www.lifering.org) will discuss the work of LifeRing, which is an abstinence-based, worldwide network of individuals seeking to live in recovery from addiction to alcohol or to other non-medically indicated drugs. LifeRing offers peer-to-peer support that encourages personal growth and continued learning through personal empowerment &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/2016-10-09\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Is addiction a choice, a disease, or a morality issue?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[243,26],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8273"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8273"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8273\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8437,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8273\/revisions\/8437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}