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Electrostimulation: addiction treatment for the coming millennium.
- Source :
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Journal of alternative and complementary medicine (New York, N.Y.) [J Altern Complement Med] 1996 Winter; Vol. 2 (4), pp. 485-91. - Publication Year :
- 1996
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Abstract
- At a period of fundamental review of the health care system, it is timely to re-assess one of medicine's most intractable problems--the treatment of addictions. The apparently insoluble dilemmas posed by the acute and chronic withdrawal syndromes underlie universally high drop-out and relapse rates. In a decade of HIV and AIDS infection, poly-substance addiction, potent street drugs, and ossified treatment strategies, it is urgent that policy formulators investigate seriously a flexible system of non-pharmacological transcranial electrostimulation treatment, based on its record of rapid, safe, and cost-effective detoxification in several countries, as one innovative contribution to the challenges presented by addiction in the 1990s. This is a brief report of the introduction of NeuroElectric Therapy (NET) into Germany, describing the responses of the first 22 cases. The daily progress of a heroin addict and a methadone addict are detailed: both were treated as outpatients for 8 hours daily, for 7 and 10 days respectively.
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 1075-5535
- Volume :
- 2
- Issue :
- 4
- Database :
- MEDLINE
- Journal :
- Journal of alternative and complementary medicine (New York, N.Y.)
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 9395678
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1089/acm.1996.2.485