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Brain Implants Used to Fight Drug Addiction in US

By Jane Wakefield — 2019

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.

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People Are Dying Because of Ignorance, Not Because of Opioids

Recently, driven largely by opioid-related deaths—predominantly of our white sisters and brothers—President Donald Trump proclaimed that the opioid problem was now a national emergency.

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Carl L. Hart
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Is Drug Addiction a Brain Disease?

The notion that drug addiction is a brain disease has become axiomatic. Around the globe aspiring health professionals treating substance abuse are indoctrinated with this belief, especially after the idea became popular in the 1990s.

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