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Methadone maintenance treatment (MMT) is one of the main forms of treatments for opioid dependence. Despite its effectiveness and widespread use, people will experience withdrawal if daily dose is insufficient or missed, promoting reluctance to attempt detoxification. In addition, methadone is a full opioid agonist which can induce respiratory depression or sedation without ceiling level, so overdose usage can be fatal. Hence, an alternative therapy is needed to completely reduce the carving for drugs and to relieve the negative affective sate caused by withdrawal.

Deep brain stimulation (DBS) is a reasonable treatment approach for addiction. Since 2009 the first case report emerged, the nucleus accumbens (NAc) is still the only brain target to be investigated in clinical case series of DBS for alcohol and heroin addiction.

This research will mainly investigate the effectiveness and safety of NAc-DBS for patients with methadone maintenance treatment. The investigators will also explore the influence of NAc-DBS on brain activity and cognition.


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NCT number NCT03952455
Study type Interventional
Source Ruijin Hospital
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Status Recruiting
Phase N/A
Start date May 13, 2019
Completion date June 1, 2021

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