Groundbreaking Brain Stimulation Therapy Used To Treat Opioid Addiction

For three decades, implanting electrodes in the brain has been used successfully to treat Parkinson’s disease. But at the West Virginia University Rockefeller Neuroscience Institute, it’s being used for the first time in the U.S. on people fighting addiction. NBC senior national correspondent Kate Snow reports TODAY’s One Nation, Overdosed series.

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