man addicted to painkillers detoxes in 20 minutes with sound wa
Medical specialists at Rambam Health Care Campus in Israel have successfully treated a patient for severe opioid addiction using non-invasive sound wave technology. The procedure targeted the brain's nucleus accumbens to disrupt the addiction cycle in just 20 minutes.
Why it matters
This breakthrough could provide a revolutionary, non-invasive alternative for treating substance abuse disorders globally.
A first-of-its-kind treatment in Israel was recently performed at Rambam Health Care Campus, where specialists helped a man in his 40s detox from an extreme dependence on opioid painkillers, which had reached about 130 pills a day, in a procedure that lasted just 20 minutes.
The report is a straightforward account of a medical procedure and clinical study.
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