Cocaine addiction treatment in Lima Peru by brain surgery - Patient #29

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Cocaine addiction treatment in Lima Peru by brain surgery - Patient #29

Idea is to use brain surgery so one no longer gets any pleasure out of life... how horrible.

They deem these people unrecoverable and say this is the only way to treat their addiction.

Shows interview with patient and parts of the surgery

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[trptamene]

This is actually really sad that they believe this is the only way to treat this...you swimmers should watch this as I found it pretty interesting.

[enquirewithin]

I'm not sure you all watched until the end! The treatment didn't even work-- he was back on cocaine a year later. The whole idea is barbaric and abhorrent.

[trptamene]

Originally Posted by enquirewithin

I'm not sure you all watched until the end! The treatment didn't even work-- he was back on cocaine a year later. The whole idea is barbaric and abhorrent.

I did watch it till the end but I think it is more that the user just wanted the lifestyle and the action of using the drug rather than them having euphoria from the drug. Although this may be defined as pleasure, but makes me wonder where you draw the line between not being bored and actually deriving pleasure. Also, would the user still get the stimulation effects from the drug?

[enquirewithin]

It looks like the operation doesn't even work. China is also 'pioneering' brain surgery for heroin addicts-- I hate to think what the real results are.