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  • 'Special Issuance,' may take several YEARS to accomplish. During this time, there is almost always NO salary, the costs associated with it are NOT reimbursed
  • It is, quite literally, the FAA's way, "or the highway." In effect, the pilot is beholden to his/her assigned medical providers (about whom she has no choice) and treatment philosophy.
  • this becomes the pilot's only mode of maintaining sobriety, and the only method about which she can be forthcoming; other modes of maintaining sobriety will elicit suspicion, and delay issuance of the below:
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    Human Intervention Motivation Study (HIMS) Related Documents: FAA Special Issuance Allowing ONLY Alcohol Breathalyzer and/or Blood Testing for Alcohol and/or Liver Function
anonymous

The FAA's Human Intervention Motivation Study (HIMS) program for flight crew members... - 0 views

  • Please see http://tinyurl.com/k8n68u7 for an example of a ‘Special Issuance’ letter from the FAA, outlining some of the basic requirements for maintenance of a Medical Certificate once the pilot has been “medically cleared”
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  • #HIPAA violations abound in the #FAA's #HIMS program for #commercial #airline #pilots
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    The FAA's Human Intervention Motivation Study (HIMS) program for flight crew members... Details and various links related to the FAA's HIMS program for airline pilots, et al.
anonymous

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  • Anyone who requests to see your Medical Certificate (e.g., a future employer, the FAA, a Check Airman, etc.) will know you are operating on a Special Issuance Medical Certificate.
  • Bottom line, 'think twice' about participating in HIMS if you are under the age of 40 and/or you anticipate switching employers.
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    Human Intervention Motivation Study (HIMS) Related Documents: 1st Class FAA Medical Certificate DISCRIMINATION & POTENTIAL FOR INVASION OF MEDICAL PRIVACY
anonymous

B. Weyhrauch's (of Weyhrauch Law Group, LLP) Interview with, "Two Moms on a Borough." |... - 0 views

  • B. Weyhrauch’s (of Weyhrauch Law Group, LLP) Interview with, “Two Moms on a Borough.”
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    We discuss the need for a programmatic overhaul of the Human Intervention Motivation Study (HIMS) sponsored by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA).
anonymous

Should Addicts Be Forced Into 12-Step Rehab Programs? No | Chaotic Pharmacology - 0 views

  • Should Addicts Be Forced Into 12-Step Rehab Programs? No
  • Forced interventions such as forced psychiatric therapy (used sometimes to addict patients) is considered as torture by governmental (e.g, United Nations) and non-profit organizations (e.g., Mad in America
  • There is no sufficient evidence to support 12-Step rehab programs as a safe and effective intervention for the treatment of addictions
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  • There is also insufficient evidence supporting the routine use of drug testing (e.g., phosphatidylethanol – PEth)
  • AA is Faith-Based, Not Evidence-Based
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    Chaotic Pharmacology: Should Addicts Be Forced Into 12-Step Rehab Programs?
anonymous

FAA's HIMS Program (Human Intervention Motivation Study) - 0 views

  • Medical school, or any kind of medical training for that matter, is obviously overrated.
  • 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
  • in aviation knows of, has heard, or likely has experienced first-hand the quarrelsome relationship that has long existed between labor and management.
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    MEDICAL TRAINING NOT NEEDED! Who needs a qualified physician when one of this airline's "finest aviators" will do...
anonymous

A Different Path to Fighting Addiction - NYTimes.com - 0 views

  • The psychologists also support the use of anti-craving medications like naltrexone, which block the brain’s ability to release endorphins and the high of using the substance.
  • A 2002 study conducted by researchers at the University of New Mexico and published in the journal Addiction showed that motivational interviewing, cognitive behavioral therapy and naltrexone, which are often used together, are far more effective in stopping or reducing drug and alcohol use than the faith-and-abstinence-based model of A.A. and other “TSF” — for 12-step facilitation — programs.
  • Researchers elsewhere have come up with similar findings. In 2006, the Cochrane Library, a health care research group, reviewed four decades of global alcohol treatment studies and concluded, “No experimental studies unequivocally demonstrated the effectiveness of AA or TSF approaches for reducing alcohol dependence or problems.” Despite that research, A.A.’s 12-step model is by far the dominant approach to addiction in America.
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  • lifelong abstinence and adherence to the 12 steps mapped out in the Big Book, published four years after the organization was founded in 1935.
  • relies heavily on faith; God is mentioned in five of the 12 steps.
  • Instead of addict or alcoholic, she prefers the terms favored by the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition, or the DSM-V, which says that patients suffer from “alcohol use disorder” or “substance abuse disorder,” terms that convey a spectrum of severity.
  • “Substance use takes on a lot of different shapes and sizes,” Dr. Kosanke said. “There are real downsides to labeling a child with a lifetime identity, when that truly may or may not turn out to be the case.”
  • “We don’t have a judgment on how you address your substance use problem. Maybe A.A. is helpful to you and you find everything you need there. If it’s not, we genuinely believe there are many strategies for helping to resolve them.”
  • Stanton Peele, a Brooklyn psychologist who has studied substance use for decades and is a longtime critic of the A.A. model.
  • That approach runs through the book she wrote with Dr. Foote and Dr. Kosanke, “Beyond Addiction: How Science and Kindness Can Help People Change.”
  • “She’s not a problem to be solved, but a child to be loved and guided toward a better life.”
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    Gabrielle Glaser's NYT article, July 3, 2014
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  • here are probably more myths and misconceptions about A l c o h o l i c sAnonymous, A m e r i c a ’s most sacrosanct institution, than there areabout any other mass organization in our country.
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anonymous

WEYHRAUCH LAW GROUP Provides legal support to the aviation community & pilots in the HI... - 0 views

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    Notwithstanding current evidence, the FAA continues to rely on last century's medical model (traditional 12-Step programs, et al.) in outlining protocols for its HIMS program. When will they discontinue practicing "bad medicine?"
anonymous

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      HIMS related employment discrimination overseen by the FAA & USDOT
  • Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) Request(s) for Discrimination Related HIMS Records from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) & US Department of Transportation (USDOT)
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    Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) Request(s) for Discrimination Related HIMS Records from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) & US Department of Transportation (USDOT)
anonymous

WEYHRAUCH LAW GROUP Provides legal support to the aviation community & pilots in the HI... - 0 views

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      Pilot voluntarily disclosed w/out incident and successfully completed HIMS process/returned to work/received FAA Special Issuance Medical. Shortly thereafter, the airline terminated said pilot for reasons that remain undisclosed.
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    The Regret of Honesty: A Policy of Truth?
anonymous

Policy of Truth? Maybe not when it comes to HIMS… | WEYHRAUCH LAW GROUP, LLP - 0 views

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      After four years of not flying, after having been "grounded" w/out pay or benefits, pilot was terminated by major air cargo carrier for voluntarily participating in HIMS.
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    After four years of not flying, after having been "grounded" w/out pay or benefits, pilot was terminated by major air cargo carrier for voluntarily participating in HIMS.
anonymous

The FAA: Driven By A Different Goal | WEYHRAUCH LAW GROUP, LLP - 0 views

  • Indeed, the FAA seems ‘driven by a different goal.’ Just what that goal is, and the motivations behind it, have yet to be uncovered and made public…
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    Aviation Law by William (Bill) Hayes "Driven by a Different Goal"
anonymous

WEYHRAUCH LAW GROUP Provides legal support to the aviation community & pilots in the HI... - 0 views

  • 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.
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    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..."
anonymous

A Prescription to End Drinking - WSJ - 0 views

  • 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
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    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**
anonymous

The Disease of Addiction is on Trial - 0 views

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    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.
anonymous

Psychiatrists Describe Trends in Medications to Treat Addiction: When Will the FAA List... - 0 views

  • More evidence that the FAA is misguided in their ‘one-size-fits-all’ approach in administering the HIMS (Human Intervention Motivation Study) program…
  • and stressed that “there is no ‘one-size fits-all’ treatment, … [and] efficacy of the treatments may vary from person to person.”
  • since drug addictions are very common disorders in both general and psychiatric patient populations, she hoped the session succeeded in “conveying some important messages about the treatment of addiction” that psychiatrists could take home and use in their practices.
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  • “Pharmacotherapies for AUD are highly underutilized. Only 8 percent of adults with AUD are currently being treated for the illness” with these medications, said Steven Batki, M.D., a professor of psychiatry at the University of California, San Francisco, who pointed out that there is no universal treatment that is as effective in all patients with AUD.
  • Though there are multiple pharmacotherapy options available to treat substance use disorders, some addiction experts maintain that these medications are often underutilized
  • these disorders are too seldom treated with pharmacotherapies approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), some addiction experts maintain.
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    Psychiatrists Describe Trends in Medications to Treat Addiction: When Will the FAA Listen?
anonymous

Should Addicts Be Forced Into 12-Step Rehab Programs? No (Part 2) | Disrupted Physician - 0 views

  • 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
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    Dr. Michael L. Langan on "Should Addicts Be Forced Into 12-Step Rehab Programs."
anonymous

WEYHRAUCH LAW Legal support for pilots in the HIMS program. - 0 views

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    WEYHRAUCH LAW GROUP, LLP Aviation, tax, and patent law. We also have an interest in civil rights issues related to the HIMS program for airline pilots.
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