Sound Waves Shatter Opioid Addiction In Stunning Medical First

[SSG Snuggle Bunny]

Doctors in Israel just pulled off something that addiction specialists have been chasing for decades — and it didn’t require a single scalpel.

In a jaw-dropping medical first, physicians at Rambam Health Care Campus in Haifa used focused sound wave technology to essentially switch off a patient’s opioid addiction. In less time than it takes to watch a sitcom, a man who had been swallowing roughly 130 pills a day walked away craving zero.

The patient, identified only as H., is a family man in his forties who originally hurt his neck years ago. Doctors prescribed opioids for the pain. The pain eventually faded — but the addiction didn’t. He was trapped, needing the drug just to feel normal and function day-to-day.

That’s when Rambam’s team stepped in with technology developed by Israeli firm Insightec. Using MRI-guided ultrasound waves, physicians targeted the nucleus accumbens — the brain’s pleasure and reward hub — and modulated its electrical activity without cutting, burning, or destroying a single cell. No surgery. No anesthesia. No recovery room.

Within a week, H. tested completely clean. His self-reported craving level: zero out of ten. But the surprises didn’t stop there. The man who used to smoke three packs of cigarettes daily nearly quit cold turkey. His desire for alcohol vanished too. The treatment essentially hit the reset button on his entire reward system.

https://www.dailywire.com/news/sound-waves-shatter-opioid-addiction-in-stunning-medical-first



Let's hope follow-on testing continues to show promise.

[SVPete]

Obviously this is experimental, needs testing, yada, yada, yada, but if the treatment proves safe and effective, how many countries’ medical associations will try to ban it because it was developed in Israel. And isn’t it sad that that is a realistic question?

[SSG Snuggle Bunny]

Obviously this is experimental, needs testing, yada, yada, yada, but if the treatment proves safe and effective, how many countries’ medical associations will try to ban it because it was developed in Israel. And isn’t it sad that that is a realistic question?

When I was writing the OP I contemplated throwing in a "tricksy Jew magic" joke because I was having the same thoughts.