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The Disease of Addiction is on Trial - 0 views

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  • anonymous on 10 Jan 15
     
    Steven Kassels has been Board Certified in Emergency Medicine and Addiction Medicine. He is a Co-Founder and Medical Director of Community Substance Abuse Centers, with treatment facilities located throughout New England. He has served as the Chair of the Massachusetts ASAM Public Policy Committee; a member of the ASAM Medical Specialty Advisory Group; and as CARF Expert Medical Consultant for Opioid Treatment Programs. When giving talks, he frequently donates his author proceeds to local treatment centers and he has personally subsidized the publishing costs to keep the price affordable. "Medicine has been very good to me and it is my way of trying to give back." Steve will Skype into book groups and they can be scheduled through his website. The book is available at Amazon, iBooks and Barnes and Noble online.
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WEYHRAUCH LAW GROUP Provides legal support to the aviation community & pilots in the HI... - 0 views

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shared by anonymous on 08 Jan 15 - No Cached
  • one of this airline's 'finest aviators' (aka flight qualified supervisors) known as a 'management pilot,' was put in charge of performing the equivalent of (or something close to) a mental status exam every month on pilots participating in the HIMS program
  • At this airline, one of these REQUIRED monthly meetings between "management" (quotes used due to the fact that most managers at this airline have little to no actual management training) and the HIMS pilot COULD PUT HIS OR HER MEDICAL CERTIFICATE (read: career) AT JEOPARDY.
  • anonymous on 08 Jan 15
     
    Human Intervention Motivation Study (HIMS) Related Documents: Management Pilot or Medical Doctor? "Medical school, or any kind of medical training for that matter, is obviously overrated..."
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Should Addicts Be Forced Into 12-Step Rehab Programs? No (Part 2) | Disrupted Physician - 0 views

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shared by anonymous on 23 Jan 15 - No Cached
  • The argument is often advanced that without coercion there is insufficient incentive to enter treatment and, within a medical paradigm, not wanting to enter treatment is considered a symptom of the disease.
  • 12-step recovery model is being used to coerce treatment on those who do not need it
  • anonymous on 23 Jan 15
     
    Dr. Michael L. Langan on "Should Addicts Be Forced Into 12-Step Rehab Programs."
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A Prescription to End Drinking - WSJ - 0 views

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  • prompting addiction experts to make a push for using medications to help people quit or cut down on excessive drinking.
  • As a result, experts say, the most effective treatments are highly individualized.
  • The Food and Drug Administration has approved three prescription drugs to treat alcohol problems. But they are seldom used, largely because 12-step programs have dominated the treatment field, NIAAA experts say.
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  • neurobiologist George Koob, director of the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA), which is leading the effort to bring new, evidence-based treatments to more people.
  • “We not only use it, we encourage it. If there’s something that can improve your chances of recovery, all the better,” says Joseph Lee, medical director for youth at the Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation, which uses naltrexone and acamprosate.
  • newer behavioral treatments try to empower patients instead, and focus on developing skills to stay sober.
  • “Over the last 25 to 30 years, much of the neurocircuitry of addiction has been identified,” opening up new targets for interventions, says David Goldman, chief of the NIAAA’s neurogenetics lab
  • anonymous on 10 Jan 15
     
    A Prescription to End Drinking Data on Medicine for Alcohol Disorders Pushes Doctors Beyond 12-Step Programs -- **Also see Melinda Beck's radio interview on same page**
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