[LadyDoc]

This is a new variation of an old lie.

Back in the 1960s and 1970's, they tried LSD to "cure" heroin addiction... didn't work. But it led to a bunch of crazy organizations that claimed to cure addiction but which degenerated into cults or worse.

This "cure" was originally associated with a pagan ritual.

Rituals do cure heroin addiction, but this type of thing done in a different culture is dangerous (not just on a christian or spiritual plane, but because the self appointed guru doing the ritual is not under the limitations of that society's traditions, and therefore has no limits to prevent abuse.)

You want to be cured? get your assembly of God pastor to have a prayer group pray over you...forget this stuff.

Scientifically it is merely a new version of an old error...spritually it is dangerous to your soul.

[neverdem]

The article is remarkable in its claim to eliminate the effects of physical withdrawal in relatively few hours replacing an agony that normally takes at least a few days. The wretched misery of physical withdrawal is such that unless it is done in a coercive environment, the addicts will give up, continuing the addiction.

That's the main reason I posted the article. I don't know if you went through this whole thread, but with the sexual spread of AIDS by intravenous drug users I thought it deserved some further interest.

The psychological dependence takes will power at a minimum and usually a lot of ancillary support including submission to a euphemistically described "higher power".