Parents, Specialists Excited Over Alternative Drug Addiction Treatment

Relief may have come the way of some parents as a team of specialists recently unveiled an alternative method of treating drug addiction and depression through the use of Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (rTMs). The specialists, who included psychiatrists, physiotherapists, neurosurgeons and psychologists, said the treatment, though expensive, was a welcome development in view of the alarming rate of relapse suffered by patients in the course of treatment. Unveiling the latest technology to parents and some specialists in Abuja, at Synapse Centre, Dr Vincent Udenze, managing director of Synapse Services (Mental Health and Drug Rehabilitation Centre) said that physio-therapy and medication used to treat addiction had helped but had its own downsides.He said most specialists had to change their treatment programme on several occasions to cope with the complexity of the cases just to make significant difference.