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P-113 - Five-year Follow-up of a Chinese Patient With Opiate Drug Psychological Dependence After Treatments With Deep Brain Stimulation: Case Report

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 April 2020

P. Zheng  and
J. Xu
P. Zheng
Affiliation:
Neurosurgery, Shanghai Pudong New Area People's Hospital, Shanghai, China
J. Xu
Affiliation:
Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China

Abstract

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Objective

Opiate drug psychological dependence is acknowledged as a difficult problem in the world. Several studies have shown the short-term efficacy of deep brain stimulation (DBS) in reducing opiate addiction. In this case report, we report on long-term results up to five years in an opiate addiction patient.

Clinical presentation

A 24-year-old man with three-year history of opiate addiction presented with several withdraw syndromes and more than three-time failures in detoxification.

Methods

The patient was treated with bilateral DBS of the nucleus accumbens (NAc) for opiate psychological dependence. No relapse was found during the follow-up periods.

Conclusion

This study suggests that DBS of the NAC could be an effective treatment of patients in reducing psychological dependence with a good recovery in psychological dysfunction.

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European Psychiatry , Volume 27 , Issue S1: Abstracts of the 20th European Congress of Psychiatry , 2012 , pp. 1
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Copyright © European Psychiatric Association 2012
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