Doctors At West Virginia University Trying To Change How Addiction Is Treated By Using Deep Brain Stimulation

MORGANTOWN, W. Va. (KDKA) —Deep brain stimulation has helped thousands of people battle Parkinson’s disease for decades.
In recent years, doctors have started using it for other things, like epilepsy and obsessive-compulsive disorder.
Now they’re hoping to use it to treat one of America’s biggest current crises: addiction.
“It doesn’t start out as a brain disease, but becomes a brain disease over time,” said Dr. Ali Rezai, a neurosurgeon at WVU’s R