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

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      anonymous on 07 Jan 15
       
      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.
  • anonymous on 07 Jan 15
     
    The Regret of Honesty: A Policy of Truth?
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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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Should Addicts Be Forced Into 12-Step Rehab Programs? No | Chaotic Pharmacology - 0 views

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  • 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
  • anonymous on 23 Jan 15
     
    Chaotic Pharmacology: Should Addicts Be Forced Into 12-Step Rehab Programs?
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What Tangled Webs We Weave When We Place Profit Before People - 0 views

What tangled webs we weave when we place #profit before people: http://bit.ly/1yjhpSV #FAA #aviation #UPS #flying #addiction #medicine #USDOT #NTSB

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What Tangled Webs We Weave When We Place Profit Before People - 0 views

What tangled webs we weave when we place #profit before people: http://bit.ly/1yjhpSV #FAA #aviation #UPS #flying #addiction #medicine #USDOT #NTSB

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What if We Really Treated Addiction Like the Disease It Is? | The Fix - 0 views

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  • Dr. Howard Wetsman argues that most addiction treatment has been misguided and ineffective but that we are finally able to "throw away the cookie cutter" and "treat addiction like the disease it is."...Richard Juman, PsyD
  • We don’t really believe that addiction is a disease!
  • in spite of the language that we use in describing addiction as a disease, we don’t actually treat it like it is a disease
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  • That’s because with every other chronic disease we look at data. With addiction, we believe.
  • As long as we think of addiction as something a “normal person” has done to himself by using a drug, we will only see it as a temporary abnormality brought on by bad behavior.
  • The mindset behind this advice is that addiction is really just a long-lasting intoxication that will eventually go away, leaving the person normal again; this is not a true understanding of addiction as a disease.
  • I found that she had a polymorphism of Methylenetetrahydrofolate Reductase (MTHFR), an enzyme that turns folic acid from our diet into L-methylfolate, the only form that our brains can use. One use for L-methylfolate is as a co-enzyme in two stages of the production of dopamine.
  • based in biology and developed from essential principles.
  • “Addiction is a primary, chronic disease of brain reward, motivation, memory and related circuitry. Dysfunction in these circuits leads to characteristic biological, psychological, social and spiritual manifestations. This is reflected in an individual pathologically pursuing reward and/or relief by substance use and other behaviors.”
  • We can finally treat addiction like the disease it is in nature.
  • Howard C. Wetsman, MD, is the Chief Medical Officer of the Townsend Addiction Treatment Centers in Louisiana and the author of Questions and Answers on Addiction.
  • anonymous on 26 Feb 15
     
    Howard C. Wetsman, MD, is the Chief Medical Officer of the Townsend Addiction Treatment Centers in Louisiana and the author of Questions and Answers on Addiction.
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