Electrostimulation: Addiction Treatment for the Coming Millennium
Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine
Volume 2, Number 4,1996, pp. 485-491
New York, February 1996
By Dr. Meg Patterson, F. RC.S.E.
Lorne Patterson, Rm.N
& Sean I. Patterson, Ph. D
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.
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