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>From: David Hadorn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: News report: Brain operation for addicts
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>This is from the New Zealand Drug Foundation news update site:
>http://www.nzdf.org.nz/update/messages/551.htm Haven't seen it elsewhere.
>The story adds what (to me) is a new twist to the increasingly scary WOD.
>Could this be a look into our future?
>D
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>BBC News Online - 18 February 1999
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>Brain operation for addicts
>
>Russian surgeons are claiming high cure rates for a controversial treatment
>for heroin addiction which involves drilling holes in patients' heads and
>removing parts of their brain.
>
>Doctors at the St Petersburg Institute the Human Brain say their technique
>is cheap and has an 80% success rate. The operation involves drilling holes
>into the brain and removing tiny parts of the brain which they claim govern
>drug addiction. So far the surgeons have tried the technique out on more
>than 100 patients. Their high success rates mean the technique could soon
>attract worldwide interest.
>
>Radical breakthrough
>
>Professor Svyatoslav Medvedev, who leads the Institute's team, says the
>operation is a radical breakthrough in the treatment of heroin addicts. "I
>don't know any other methods which can successfully remove this
>psychological dependency. During the operation we have full cooperation and
>full voice contact with patients. We never use general anaesthetic, only
>local anaesthetic."
>
>The ability to communicate patients during the operation is intended to
>help ensure surgeons do not damage other vital parts of the brain.
>
>Working slowly, they use waifer-[sic] thin needles to probe brain tissue as
>well as a compressor adapted from a car foot pump. The surgeons do not
>boast that the treatment is a miracle cure. They say if patients return to
>drugs their addiction may come back. Also, they cannot control the social
>environment in which patients live.
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>Drug problems
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>St Petersburg faces huge economic problems and drug use there is out of
>control. Last year, two tonnes of heroin were found in port of St
>Petersburg. But several former patients back the operation. Sveta says she
>feels like a new woman two months after she went to the Institute. She
>said: "This operation was my last chance. All my previous attempts had
>ended in failure. Since the surgery I have not felt the need for heroin at
>all."
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