(thought...un-informed generalisation...)
i wonder if the action to the nerve is intrinsic to the spasm being a frequency modulation/disruptor (i would need to hit the jack-pot on the internet to find any real data to investigate that concept)
my expectation is eventually nerve neutralisers will be possible like a precision harmonic laser/field generator
simply moving an adjustable lamp to the area which turns off the nerves in that region at specific frequencies allowing various primary nerve critical functions to carry on while sensory nerves are switched off.
possibly simply by placing a transmitter to the body like a wrist watch it will turn off the pain receptors in a related radius.
obviously..
the potential critical damage to eyes organs and brains and primary nerve clusters might be an issue, no different in risk to hospital surgery should imagine under controlled management.
Back in the 90's, I found a curious medical device in some hospital's waste. It was roughly Walkman size and shape, with a couple of wired electrodes to attach to the body. It was in it's case, with some cursory instructions--but these were the early days of the interwebs, so detailed info was scant. Anyways, it was some sort of ultrasound device for management of nerve pain, and the instructs specifically warned against placing the nodes anywhere on or above the neck, so... of course, that's how I used it. (Shoot me--I also swear by my orgone accumulator.)
Of course, nowadays laser tech has gotten really cheap--my vet uses one for therapy with Daisy's (dog) arthritis. It cost her ~20 grand, but I told her I could produce a superior model for less than a couple grand.
Anyways, I don't even know why I am revealing all of this, but you probably see where it's going. Part of the problem for making significant advances in these areas is that you really need volunteers, and even with willing volunteers there are other legal obstacles. The concept of "kindling" is fast gaining wide acceptance in the medical community--what was once believed to have no possible long term consequences, or adverse effects, is no longer the case.
Still, I'd volunteer. I've got nothing to lose. But I
can't.
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i doubt you will find any benzo addiction that is not driven primarily by a psychological addiction.
what seems to be used as an excuse is the physiological condition to conceal the psychological addiction that has developed along side the behavioural while introduction of the drug to the neurological system.
I'm not so sure, to be honest. Even with opiates/opioids, for instance, the fact is that most people simply do not like them. They only take them because they have to--or are instructed to. The distinctions between habituation to dependency to addiction are not always so clear.
I don't know. To the best of my knowledge, epileptic blackouts are strikingly similar to benzo/rufie blackouts--they ain't fun. Typically, I "lose" seconds or minutes, but often enough, I've lost hours to days--I've even lost more than a week a couple of times (at least). But then, plenty of alcoholics regularly blackout, yet they continue.
Repetition compulsion. There's a scene in Thomas Vinterberg's
Festen (Celebration) that I've never gotten to see. Every time it comes up, I have a violent seizure and lose consciousness. Funnily, same with Harmony Korine
Julien Donkeyboy. But I won't stop trying.
part of the primary problem with USA research is the user pays health care system that drives a need for constant victim status to validate the access to care.
user pays privatized health drives the need for addiction to maintain the victim status of the patient.
this is a huge problem that wont be solved any time soon assuming any political group large enough decides to look at possible regulatory actions to help re-align the patient access.
Both Beto O'Rourke and Andrew Wang advocated for decriminilization for opiates. With regulation, overdoses would vanish--no fentanyl or, worse yet, carfentanyl mixed in with your smack. Likewise, the myth of the "out of control" addicts would vanish overnight. Undoubtedly, some of those would remain, but they would comprise a very small minority.
(i am currently being distracted by several things so unable to put my mind to task properly, so i apologize for sounding somewhat superficial.)
I'm beyond distracted at the moment. I'll likely look at this tomorrow and have no idea what I was on about.