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Going Skiing in Japan with a Travel Agents Perth - 1 views

It is summer here in Australia and I am thinking about escaping the hot sun by skiing on the slopes of Japan on a clear winter day. As soon as I heard about WOW Factor Travel Agents Perth and their...

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The Best AV System Provider - 1 views

Every time I have seminars or conferences to handle, I always ask the help of Ignite AV for my AV hire needs. They never fail me in providing excellent audio-visual solutions to any live events...

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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.
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As a result, experts say, the most effective treatments are highly individualized.
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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.
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“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.
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newer behavioral treatments try to empower patients instead, and focus on developing skills to stay sober.
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“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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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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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…
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and stressed that “there is no ‘one-size fits-all’ treatment, … [and] efficacy of the treatments may vary from person to person.”
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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.
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Though there are multiple pharmacotherapy options available to treat substance use disorders, some addiction experts maintain that these medications are often underutilized
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these disorders are too seldom treated with pharmacotherapies approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), some addiction experts maintain.
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anonymous on 07 Jan 15

Psychiatrists Describe Trends in Medications to Treat Addiction: When Will the FAA Listen?

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

'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
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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.
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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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anonymous on 21 Jan 15

Human Intervention Motivation Study (HIMS) Related Documents: FAA Special Issuance Allowing ONLY Alcohol Breathalyzer and/or Blood Testing for Alcohol and/or Liver Function

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