Daily Wire reports new medical technology that - if proven safe, effective, and demonstrable - could be a game changer on a par with insulin for diabetes. Doctors in Israel claim to have cured a man's years-long addiction to opioids.
Using ultrasound waves aimed at his "nucleus accumbens — the brain’s pleasure and reward hub"- they "reset" his reward system. They report he also lost his desire for cigarettes and alcohol. This sounds almost too good to be true.
Before we get too excited, I'll want to know if they so "turned off" his pleasure center that he no longer finds any pleasure in life. If he becomes suicidally depressed or limply apathetic, most would not find that an okay tradeoff.
