Brain implants used to fight drug addiction in US

[Disir]

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.

 

[Kat]

Oh gosh. I read that as transplant at first.

 

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[sparky]

The hardcore addicts are a walking death sentence imho....

I remember taking all the OD's to the ER , many times reporting (guessing) their age at twice reality. They looked like sh*t , and many relapsed and died , even after all the substance abuse councilors did for them.

so yanno, some brain therapy might sound radical , but may be their best option

~S~