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anonymous

The Regret of Honesty: A Policy of Truth? - 0 views

I'm an airline pilot-turned "alcoholic." In a world full of heavy drinkers, you might think that a poor career move; you'd be right. In September of 2009, after a rather rowdy three-night stay in...

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started by anonymous on 14 Feb 15 no follow-up yet
anonymous

The Regret of Honesty: A Policy of Truth? - 0 views

I'm an airline pilot-turned "alcoholic." In a world full of heavy drinkers, you might think that a poor career move; you'd be right. In September of 2009, after a rather rowdy three-night stay in...

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started by anonymous on 14 Feb 15 no follow-up yet
anonymous

A Prescription to End Drinking - WSJ - 0 views

www.wsj.com/...ion-to-end-drinking-1418687580

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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**
anonymous

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

www.nytimes.com/...ath-to-fighting-addiction.html

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shared by anonymous on 13 Feb 15 - No Cached
  • 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.”
  • anonymous on 13 Feb 15
     
    Gabrielle Glaser's NYT article, July 3, 2014
docderz

Instrument Rating: Use it to Your Advantage - Disciples of Flight - 0 views

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shared by docderz on 29 Jun 15 - No Cached
  • I’ve heard many accomplished pilots with multiple ratings say they found the Instrument rating the most challenging to achieve. Getting an IFR ticket takes time, brains, and money. So I’m always surprised how many pilots, having gone through all the effort and expense to earn their instrument rating, fail to use it much.
  • There are times when you might consider using your IFR rating even when the weather is technically VFR. Filing, flying, and remaining IFR won’t just keep you proficient; it may someday save you from an FAA violation, spatial disorientation, or a tragic CFIT accident.
    • docderz
      docderz on 29 Jun 15
       
      If you get your IFR rating, this article details a number of ways you can use it to help your flying.
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  • Enroute, even on a daytime VFR flight, you could encounter haze, smoke, marine layers, or flat light on snow-covered terrain, all of which can cause you to lose reference to the horizon. A fellow up here in Idaho was flying over a frozen, snow-covered lake on a gray day with no horizon and literally flew his plane into the snow. He had no idea how low he was, similar to a glassy-water situation for a seaplane. Fortunately, he was fine, although his plane was totaled.
  • Weather that is technically VFR but actually marginal can fool you on departure or arrival, as well.
Warplanes .com

F18 Super Hornet Model Airplane - 0 views

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shared by Warplanes .com on 22 Feb 11 - No Cached
  • Warplanes .com on 22 Feb 11
     
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Thomas Sullivan

How to Become a Pilot in the United States - Tips, Tricks, Helpful Guide, News and Info... - 2 views

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shared by Thomas Sullivan on 01 Oct 09 - Cached
  • Thomas Sullivan on 01 Oct 09
     
    Human flight has always been one of mankind's archetypal dreams. This article provides useful information for anyone who is thinking about learning how to fly. More specifically, the information presented here provides the steps you need to know in order to become a certified Private Pilot in the United States.
anonymous

The Disease of Addiction is on Trial - 0 views

www.asam.org/...sease-of-addiction-is-on-trial

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shared by anonymous on 10 Jan 15 - No Cached
  • 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.
Mathias G.

Aer Lingus to axe US 'unsustainable' routes - 0 views

www.thisislondon.co.uk/...article.do

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  • In total the airline is to cut capacity on its US long-haul services by 25%.
  • Mathias G. on 12 Jun 09
     
    How can LCCs expect to open long-haul routes while legacy carriers can't? MOL always said he wanted to open low-cost long-haul carriers, but it just doesn't work
Thomas Sullivan

How to Achieve Human Flight Using a Wingsuit | eHow.com - 0 views

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shared by Thomas Sullivan on 02 Nov 09 - Cached
  • Thomas Sullivan on 02 Nov 09
     
    This article provides information about how you can fly using a wingsuit. While some may consider this to be an extreme form of skydiving, many consider it to be a form of flying. In any case, it is the closest a human can get to flying like a bird, or at least a flying squirrel, and not be part of any aircraft. Here we provide a discussion about this unusual form of human flight.
Thomas Sullivan

How to Understand the Hardship of a Regional Airline Pilot | eHow.com - 2 views

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shared by Thomas Sullivan on 22 Sep 09 - Cached
  • Thomas Sullivan on 22 Sep 09
     
    How to Understand the Hardship of a Regional Airline Pilot. In this article we examine the question, is regional airline flying worth it to the aspiring professional pilot who hopes to fly for the major airlines? We will look at conditions regional airline...
Wallid pilots

Ryanair to fight EU decision to reject its bid for Aer Lingus - 0 views

www.mepilots.com/-reject-its-bid-for-aer-lingus

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shared by Wallid pilots on 13 Feb 13 - No Cached
  • Wallid pilots on 13 Feb 13
     
    RYANAIR has admitted defeat in its renewed takeover bid for rival Aer Lingus, but vowed to fight the decision in the courts.Airlines news
Wallid pilots

Hawaiian to Add Service to Sendai - 0 views

www.mepilots.com/aiian-to-add-service-to-sendai

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shared by Wallid pilots on 15 Feb 13 - No Cached
  • Wallid pilots on 15 Feb 13
     
    Hawaiian Airlines will add its fifth Japan gateway in June with the launch of new service three times a week to Sendai, Japan, starting June 25, pending Japan government approval.
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Japan to send two officials to U.S. for Boeing battery probe - 0 views

www.mepilots.com/o-u-s-for-boeing-battery-probe

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  • Wallid pilots on 02 Feb 13
     
    Japan's Civil Aviation Bureau said on Friday it would send two investigators to Seattle as part of the probe of the battery problem on Boeing's (BA) 787 Dreamliner.
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India's Jet Swings To Quarterly Profit - 0 views

www.mepilots.com/jet-swings-to-quarterly-profit

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  • Wallid pilots on 02 Feb 13
     
    India's second biggest carrier Jet Airways, close to a tie-up with Abu Dhabi's Etihad Airways, swung to a quarterly profit of INR850 million rupees ($15.98 million) on Friday on lower costs and rising fares in an under-serviced market
Wallid pilots

Kristin Chenoweth Reduced to Tears After American Airlines Abuse - 0 views

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  • Wallid pilots on 02 Feb 13
     
    Kristin Chenoweth was reportedly the victim of airline abuse after boarding an American Airlines flight from Dallas to L.A. The Emmy award-winning actress was allegedly reduced to tears when a flight attendant accused her of not completing the correct paperwork
Wallid pilots

Boeing 787 returns to Seattle area from Texas - 0 views

www.mepilots.com/rns-to-seattle-area-from-texas

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  • Wallid pilots on 08 Feb 13
     
    The first Boeing 787 permitted to fly since Jan. 16 landed at Paine Field in Everett, Wash., on Thursday after a "ferry flight" from Fort Worth, Texas, where it was being painted for future delivery to China Southern Airlines.Airlines news.
Wallid pilots

US Airways employees awarded Over $260K for exceptional service to customers - 0 views

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  • Wallid pilots on 08 Feb 13
     
    Ten US Airways employees from Frankfurt, Germany to Tucson, Ariz. were awarded $10,000 each for providing exceptional service to customers through the airline's "Above & Beyond" program. An additional 350 employees of US Airways and its wholly
Wallid pilots

Rusty Page returning to Charlotte, opines on US Airways merger - 0 views

www.mepilots.com/te-opines-on-us-airways-merger

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  • Wallid pilots on 15 Feb 13
     
    Rusty Page, a former executive at Bank of America predecessor NationsBank, one-time investor-relations consultant and then a NASDAQ leader, is coming home to Charlotte. Page, 70, retired to the mountains near Linville nine years ago
AV Hire

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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