3 Voices Spring Events to Focus on Addiction

Marblehead, Massachusetts - 3 Voices continues its mission to empower women to use their voices on important issues by presenting three programs this spring at Abbot Library focusing on addiction.

“The opioid crisis and addiction are issues that have touched just about everyone. But it’s something we’re not talking enough about,” said Betty Lautner, one of the 3 Voices founders. “We want to get that conversation going by presenting accurate terminology, information and important human insights.”

The programs begin on Tuesday, March 19, when Georgia Miller, PhD, and Ellen Terry, MHS, will discuss “What does it mean to be addicted?” Miller has taught an array of graduate and undergraduate counseling and psychology courses at institutions of higher learning and currently teaches at UMass-Lowell. Terry has 30 years of experience as an addiction counselor in hospital out-patient clinician services and currently serves as a psychiatric triage clinician at Salem Hospital in the emergency center.

On Tuesday, April 23, Anne Lucas and Ariele Goldman will discuss “What Does It Mean to Live with Addiction? Human Stories.”

Marbleheaders will recognize Lucas as a prominent actor, singer, director, producer and playwright. For the April program, she will draw upon her own experience with the addiction of a family member and having attended Al-Anon for nine years. She has written of her experience with addiction in RECOVERY, a play that premiered at Theater for the New City in NYC last fall and will be produced at MLT this coming fall, portraying three sets of mothers and daughters who meet in rehab.

Goldman fought her own addiction and now helps others in recovery. She is from Swampscott, Massachusetts, and notes that she had a very normal, healthy upbringing with two loving parents. Yet, she struggled with addictive behaviors including drugs and alcohol. Then in 2017 she learned to put the pieces back together. Today, she lives a life she “could have never even imagined was possible.”

On Tuesday, June 4, the speakers from both sessions will come together in a follow-up event to provide additional information and answer questions.

Each program will be followed by questions and answers and an opportunity to continue the conversation with light desserts and beverages.

All 3 Voices are sponsored by Abbot Library and MHTV. All 3 Voices programs are free and open to the public. For more information about 3 Voices, visit 3Voices.org or contact 3voicesmhd@gmail.com.

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