Non-Invasive Stimulation to Combat Addiction Relapse: The Technology

Temporal Interference and How it Works

Uma Darbha

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2 in 3 individuals addicted to opioids relapse a year after rehab treatment. that’s insane.

Clearly, something in the way that we treat addiction is problematic, or wrong.

It has been proven that addiction often leads to the onset of other mental illnesses such as schizophrenia or anxiety. The same can be applied the other way around — mental illnesses often lead to some form of addiction. This phenomenon has been deemed as Dual Diagnosis.

By treating drug addiction with more, albeit differently-functioning, drugs, we are reducing the efficiency of resolving addiction, and this is clear with the statistics on relapsing. By treating drug addiction with more, albeit differently-functioning, drugs, we are reducing the efficiency of resolving addiction, and this is clear with the statistics on relapsing.

Before reading the rest of this article, check out the one linked below for background biological knowledge:

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