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The West Virginia University Rockefeller Neuroscience Institute and WVU Medicine, today (Nov. 5) announced the launch of a first-in-the-U.S. clinical trial using deep brain stimulation for patients suffering from treatment-resistant opioid use disorder.
Funded through a grant from the National Institute on Drug Abuse, the clinical trial is led by principal investigator Ali Rezai, M.D., executive chair of the RNI, and a multidisciplinary team of neurosurgical, psychiatric, neuroscience, and other experts.
The team successfully implanted a Medtronic DBS device in the addiction and reward center of the brain. The trial's first participant is a 33-year-old man, who has struggled with substance use disorder, specifically excessive opioid and benzodiazepine use, for more than a decade with multiple overdoses and relapses.
[...] "Our team at the RNI is working hard to find solutions to help those affected by addiction," Dr. Rezai said. "Addiction is a brain disease involving the reward centers in the brain, and we need to explore new technologies, such as the use of DBS, to help those severely impacted by opioid use disorder."
Also at TechCrunch and Engadget.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 06 2019, @03:52AM (1 child)
I support your thinking regardless of the SJW's on here who feel triggered and will vote you down into oblivion. But I was kind of thinking that we should just collect them all (the junkies) and put them on a remote island and let them figure it out for themselves. We'll offer get out of island jail free cards to those who truly want to get of the juice. The moment they relapse, back on the island they go. Fight it out or figure it out. Either way normal society can live peacefully and only the strongest (and those with the most will power) will survive.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by Azuma Hazuki on Thursday November 07 2019, @03:26AM
Are you one of those guys who doesn't finish his antibiotics because he "feels better" midway through the course of therapy? All you're doing there is, metaphorically at least, creating a "resistant strain" of junkie. Leaving aside the incredible cruelty, you're not offering any realistic, viable, or even plausible solution. You just want to vent your assholery onto an "accepted" outgroup.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...