Neuro Electric Therapy for Addiction

Medicine using electrostimulation is arguably a more benign intervention than pharmacology, and recent progress in the treatment of Parkinson’s and other conditions using such stimulation is establishing a record of both safety and efficacy in tens of thousands of patients in this decade alone. In its different forms, electrostimulation includes acupuncture, electro-acupuncture, deep brain stimulation and various applications of cranial electrostimulation. This paper describes the background, treatment process, outcomes and ongoing research arising from perhaps the best known application of cranial electrostimulation for addiction, that of the late Dr Meg Patterson’s NeuroElectric Therapy (NET™), a treatment distinguished by its clinical record in treating a wide variety of drugs of dependency, and clinically potent enough to do so rapidly and without supportive or replacement pharmacology.

- excerpted from A Common Anti-Addiction Mechanism: NeuroElectric Therapy (NET™) in Drug Treatment