NeuroElectric Therapy

NeuroElectric Therapy (NET) is a new form of addiction treatment in early clinical trials.

In the late 1970s, a Scottish surgeon, Dr. Meg Patterson (MBE, MBChB, FRCS Edinburgh), discovered that by applying small, precisely structured electrical waveforms to chemically dependent people, she could stimulate the human body to rapidly accelerate its rate of detoxification.

Published clinical results showed that by coupling NeuroElectric Therapy with approximately two weeks of a residential rehabilitation program, participants being treated with such a protocol exhibited a dropout rate of less than 2% and experienced long-term drug abstinence rates of approximately 80%, based upon a follow-up study that determined the sampled participants’ abstinence status anywhere from 1 - 8 years after their initial treatment (n=186). This is compared with about a 3% long-term average abstinence rate for people who are treated using traditional methods.

Approximately 130 addicts have been treated in pilot tests in the USA and UK in 2006 and early 2007.

External links

• Effects of neuro-electric therapy (N.E.T.) in drug addiction: interim report, Margaret A. Patterson