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Patients with severe opioid addiction are being given brain implants to help reduce their cravings, in the first trial of its kind in the US.
Gerod Buckhalter, 33, who has struggled with substance abuse for more than a decade with many relapses and overdoses, has already had the surgery.
Lead doctor Ali Rezai described the device as a "pacemaker for the brain".
But he added it was not a consumer technology and should not be used for "augmenting humans".
Brain implants used to fight drug addiction in US
I'm not sure how I feel about that.
Gerod Buckhalter, 33, who has struggled with substance abuse for more than a decade with many relapses and overdoses, has already had the surgery.
Lead doctor Ali Rezai described the device as a "pacemaker for the brain".
But he added it was not a consumer technology and should not be used for "augmenting humans".
Brain implants used to fight drug addiction in US
I'm not sure how I feel about that.