Experimental Brain Surgery Aims To Treat Severe Substance Abuse
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2 жыл бұрынWhen we first met James Fisher at the West Virginia University Rockefeller Neuroscience Institute, the 36-year-old was about to be the third person in the U.S. to have an experimental brain surgery in hopes of helping him overcome severe substance abuse. NBC News’ Kate Snow interviewed the team of doctors, followed the procedure’s progress, and caught up with James four weeks later. He says he felt an immediate difference.» Subscribe to NBC News: nbcnews.to/SubscribeToNBC
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Experimental Brain Surgery Aims To Treat Severe Substance Abuse
@rustymugg9658 2 жыл бұрын
Wow I am amazed I hope it helps. Unfortunately, drugs stole my life now I feel like I'm just waiting to die, I'm jaded towards life. It's all vanity, a chasing of the wind. I wish the best for addicts suffering throughout the world. Amen 🙏🏾 🙏🏾 🙏🏾 💔😥
@davechristian7543 2 жыл бұрын
@@coolkid13243 Oh because you no how he feels because your him 'isn't that right u opinionated so n so. plz try n remember we r all individuals n r not all the same n don't have the same thought process upbringing n the list goes on on. 'Maybe try opening your eyes not your mouth so much, good-luck n peace be wit you.
@mud6866 2 жыл бұрын
Hey Rusty! You don't have to be jaded forever. Healing comes with patience and dilligence. Please think about what it will take for you to reach happiness, and go for it all the way. Even if you have to walk a thousand miles, or climb the tallest mountain. Even if it takes fifty years, you can be truely happy and free one day. It's not always like this.
@rustymugg9658 2 жыл бұрын
@@coolkid13243 That's rude of you to say.
@diannh2894 2 жыл бұрын
Don't give up I was on heroin and homeless for ten years and I have six years clean today. You can do it.
@rustymugg9658 2 жыл бұрын
@@diannh2894 I am jaded clean or high I'm sick of this painful place
@ccharles848 2 жыл бұрын
Fascinating!
@alwaysflushinpublic Ай бұрын
ALL THE FRIENDS OF JIMMY K SAY HAYYYY. I wonder how he is now. I can see success w/ this being offered to clinical sociopaths (not an accusation of Mr Fisher, however if this can help those w no emotions to feel more normal..) Nothing but good wishes my brother.
@joeybaby. 2 жыл бұрын
We've loss hundred of thousands of people due to Big Pharma ,they should be paying for this procedure,not the client. I always wonder what unfulfilled gift and talents each of the them had. Would we be a better country , had they not taken drugs. My heart break for those addicted in our society. God bless them and may they be released from that burden .
@rustymugg9658 2 жыл бұрын
❤💔🖤
@liyaxo4560 Жыл бұрын
❤
@467076 11 ай бұрын
I don’t entirely blame big pharm. When I had to take opioids the doctor warned be that they could be addicting. So I went with the intention that I was gonna quit. However, with the amount of chronic pain I was feeling, I know most people would also take the opioids, and blame doctors or big pharma that and that it wasn’t their fault. You always have a choice to not take such meds, most people do, because it’s an easy way out when you’re living in constant pain.
@squamish4244 17 күн бұрын
Now they don't need to do this anymore. Focused ultrasound is just as effective as deep brain stimulation without any drilling, and is being investigated for many conditions. HUGE potential for mental health, addiction, chronic pain and numerous other issues.
@zitofan4life Жыл бұрын
I’d be willing to be a test subject for the surgery. Unfortunately I’m sure that won’t happen.
@BeefZupreme 2 жыл бұрын
A clockwork orange…..
@alwaysflushinpublic Ай бұрын
While I love that film and understand the message, you cannot weigh the all to realistic outcome for addicts of narcotics (prison, psych wards, death) to the possible outcome from a low budget horror flick. America has lost 1.3 million between ages of 25-64 since 1990 - 2018
@louwhowhovillewoohoo 2 жыл бұрын
👏👏👏👏👏 awesome thank you
@entropic7768 2 жыл бұрын
I am hopeful of a future full of brain-machine interfaces. I hope that in the not so far future we can play Minecraft in our heads without opening our eyes.
@mud6866 2 жыл бұрын
................ 🌈IMAAGINATION🌈
@squamish4244 17 күн бұрын
The guy who just got the Neuralink surgery can do just that. I am hopeful for such a future too, it holds incredible promise.
@squamish4244 17 күн бұрын
@@mud6866 They can do that now, actually.
@matthewschultz5199 2 жыл бұрын
The Matrix
@emmataylor-rennie8353 15 күн бұрын
Wow
@thiabrabson2533 2 жыл бұрын
🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿
@karltaylor6391 5 ай бұрын
Do androids dream of sheep? Or a brave new world lol
@stig6339 4 ай бұрын
don't try to fix your life don't fix your mental health just go for a surgery
@squamish4244 17 күн бұрын
Were you even listening? He tried to detox a dozen times. And now they don't even need to do surgery. They can use beams of ultrasound to penetrate the brain without any drilling. And this will fix his mental health and enable him to fix his life. And most importantly of all, if something works, it works. Who cares how it's done.
@BG08.18 5 ай бұрын
They talk like slow. But if they think it helped them that’s great.
@SmokinSilentJoE 2 жыл бұрын
Why not improve the quality of life in America instead of cutting people's heads open to fix addiction. That will never happen though, the rich and powerful want you sick and dumb so they can stay in power.
@467076 11 ай бұрын
The rich and powerful definitely don’t want you to succeed that is true. I do agree on that. That being said, we live in the age of internet we’re literally anyone can learn anything and be anything here in the USA, there are tons of examples and yet they don’t. People continue to be stupid and lazy and just blame the rich. Literally everyone has a phone nowadays. They can literally go on their phones and google, “how to earn more money” and yet they choose not to. They go on TikTok’s and KZfaq and complain about how the rich and powerful are holding them back from succeeding. No wonder most people are broke and stupid.
@squamish4244 17 күн бұрын
Why not both? This is for people who are already relapsed addicts. And if it works for a lot of people, far less people will be sick and dumb. AND we can improve the quality of life in America. It's not an either/or thing.
@diannh2894 2 жыл бұрын
Are you fkn kidding me
@ruthdepew7212 2 жыл бұрын
This sounds like a good step toward addressing our drug crisis. Too bad so many of the commenters here have so many severe mental problems. Perhaps help for them is also just around the corner.
@squamish4244 17 күн бұрын
The comments are ridiculous. It's like people just can't be happy for this guy.
@RighteousBarber777 2 жыл бұрын
Retain your seed men and you want need drugs.
@467076 11 ай бұрын
Bro is preaching 😂I’m all for it. Stay on that SR my guy. You’re uncommon amongst the uncommon. Stay hard as David Goggins says, no pun intended 😂
@earnwolfe244 2 жыл бұрын
🤯🤯🤯🤯
@jasonedward92 2 жыл бұрын
The philosophy of the rich and the poor is that: the rich invest their money and spend what is left. The poor spend their money and invest what is left.
@walterkyle2278 2 жыл бұрын
How many millionaires do you know who have become wealthy by investing in saving account? I rest my case.
@adamjose7726 2 жыл бұрын
Investing for today is priceless because tomorrow isn’t promised, trading Bitcoins,gold,silver and crypto secure a better tomorrow
@zacharypeter8276 2 жыл бұрын
@@adamjose7726 Interesting,most people don’t understand the market moves and tend to be mislead infact like this and always depend on money in the bank very bad idea.
@adamjose7726 2 жыл бұрын
@@zacharypeter8276 I understand the fact that tomorrow isn’t promised to anyone,but investing today is a hard thing to do because I have no idea of how and where to invest in?
@daniellisa731 2 жыл бұрын
When money realizes that it’s in good hands,it wants to stay and multiply in those arms,if you really want to make points out of the money you’ve got,you have to take it out of your savings account
@Me_chelle93 2 жыл бұрын
Why can't addicts just be the way they are? Why is it so bad to be on a pain killer for the entirety of your life, if so you require? I understand people think this is unethical, but why? Alcohol is used to "numb the senses" and people drink and drive, die from alcohol poisoning, and other deadly effects. SO why can't a person addicted to pain killers, receive the drugs they want and need to function? SO what if someone enjoys being high. I just don't understand it. I am in excruciating pain, that I hope no one ever suffers with. I have the MOST PAINFUL disease known to man, CRPS or Complex Regional Pain Syndrome. I CAN NOT GET THE PAIN MEDS I NEED because of the "War on Drugs". It is UNFAIR that someone who does NOT understand my pain, to tell me, I cannot have pain meds that are known to work.
@mud6866 2 жыл бұрын
addiction is not medicine. Addiction is when the drugs you use make you SICK. Did you know the word DRUG means anything used as medicine? Medicine is only medicine when you use it sparingly to treat an illness or injury. Once you use slightly too much, it becomes poison. Look it up. Addiction is when you use too much and get poisoned.
@mud6866 2 жыл бұрын
Btw you ca not get pain medication anymore because pain medication is extremely damaging, they are PROTECTING you by not allowing you to damage yourself. Pain meds do not heal crps or fibromialgia or any of those. You have to try other methods, like physio-therapy and dietary changes. You cant just pump yourself full of pain meds. Btw abusing pain meds will CAUSE more pain.
@michah321 Жыл бұрын
no one should force someone into sobriety from a moral standpoint. There really is no problem with people having pain medication. The only problem is when things get worse and worse and people use more and more and they get out of control.
@rondaknott9545 5 ай бұрын
It starts with pain pills for something then the pills don't work so you take more then more then stronger pills then they stop giving them to you so you look elsewhere for something similar and find something stronger and more and more then one day you get the wrong one and die or you search for a pain killer for so long and hard you lose your family over it then your life it's a snowball affect. If you don't understand then you're never been in pain before.
@itsaaronlolz 5 ай бұрын
I have anxiety and I don’t seek treatment because I’m seen as young and I am functional so they assume I’m a drug seeker. I literally have physical cardiac issues due to my anxiety. I take fish oil and try my best. I don’t want holes drilled in my brain or to take medication. I just go about my life sweating and stressed out but I’m not going to get a lobotomy
@ozlemelih 2 жыл бұрын
Lobotomy
@mud6866 2 жыл бұрын
No
@squamish4244 17 күн бұрын
No. This is nothing like a lobotomy.
@davechristian7543 2 жыл бұрын
so really there still taking a substance as wat they did or r doing isn't natural al all but i guess wat ever works for you eh. #Peace. 'ps as long as the courts in the States don't make this sort of thing compulsory n thats one big thing to consider in this day n age.
@decukoppe3615 2 жыл бұрын
Here we go ...... Trans- Humanity .......
@darioperez5084 2 жыл бұрын
Let's reprogram us yes government u can control are minds
@ruthdepew7212 2 жыл бұрын
You do have a severe comprehension problem. I am so sorry for you.
@mud6866 2 жыл бұрын
If you think being free of addiction is control, you are really ill....
@EddieSturkey 2 жыл бұрын
One word, psychedelics.
@haylipena2541 2 жыл бұрын
yes
@mathiasb2616 2 жыл бұрын
Uh... no? The entire point of this is trying to find happiness without the use of mood altering substances. If you need take something in order to feel normal or change perspective then your brain is defective. Trust me. I'm an addict with 15 years of continuing use of all types of drugs including psychedelics. When the drugs wear off I'm left empty. Ivr had epiphanies due to hallucinogens but they were fleeting. I can logically talk about them but the spiritual feeling I got from them have all but worn off.
@mud6866 2 жыл бұрын
Yeah, because we all want to be zombie-hippies🙄 nah I think I'd rather keep my brain in decent condition.
@jaredvincent3323 Жыл бұрын
Maybe, LSD didn't work for me
@467076 11 ай бұрын
One word, philosophy.
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