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Blocking the high: one man’s quixotic quest to cure addiction (mosaicscience.com)
8 points by lxm on March 20, 2015 | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment


This is absolutely amazing. Pez-dispenser-like abdomen implant that modulates the dosage of Naltrexone which, as the article suggests, "takes the high out" of opiates. Trick the body and voila, freedom.

“Methadone you always felt medicated, albeit subtly,” says Dowsett, referring to the opiate given to injection users that is supposed to control cravings without inducing its own high. When he’s on naltrexone, though, Dowsett says all that goes through his mind is: “God, I’m free.”




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