Cranial electro-stimulation for the amelioration of drug withdrawal symptoms among recovering addicts
The problem of drug addiction is receiving urgent attention. Foremost among the treatment problems among drug addicts is the need to help them through the psychologically and physiologically demanding period of withdrawal. The body reacts during this state with a rebound stress response which incl...
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| Language: | English |
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2010
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| Online Access: | http://irep.iium.edu.my/22670/1/Cranial_Electro-Stimulation_for_the_Amelioration_of_Drug_Withdrawal.pdf http://irep.iium.edu.my/22670/ |
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| Summary: | The problem of drug addiction is receiving urgent attention. Foremost among the treatment problems
among drug addicts is the need to help them through the psychologically and physiologically demanding
period of withdrawal. The body reacts during this state with a rebound stress response which includes
extreme anxiety, depression and insomnia. Underlying the addictive state is an insidious and progressive
destruction of normal brain functioning such as severe memory loss, inability to process abstract
information, and other organic brain dysfunctions, such as Korsakoff psychosis.
Since addiction, withdrawal, and anhedonia are the result of insufficient levels of certain brain
chemicals, or undeveloped pleasure centres and pleasure pathways, the most direct way of eliminating
them is to restore optimal levels of the brain chemicals, to stimulate the pleasure centres and pleasure
pathways. Cranial electro-stimulation is a process which utilizes minute electrical stimulation for
therapeutic purposes. |
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