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Flight Schools - A Directory for the American Pilot - 0 views

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shared by Thomas Sullivan on 11 Dec 08 - Cached
  • Thomas Sullivan on 11 Dec 08
     
    If you are an American pilot or live overseas and would like to train to be a pilot in the United States, this site should be useful. A pilot portal which includes a flight school directory, aviation directory, and weather information.
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A Prescription to End Drinking - WSJ - 0 views

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shared by anonymous on 10 Jan 15 - No Cached
  • 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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