Drug addiction is compulsive and spontaneous drug-taking behavior which is characterized by non-medical usage, long and repeated exposure to addictive drugs and gradually increasing drug-taking dosage and frequency,and become a main threat against human being's public health, economic development and social safety.
Effective treatments for severe drug addiction are limited. China centers employing compulsory detoxification, reported a 3 year abstinence rate of only 15%. For the methadone maintenance therapy, relapse often occurs promptly after cessation of methadone. A Malaysian reports about taking naltrexone or buprenorphine treating,showed average relapsed time of 2 or 3 months,respectively. Assessment for psychological craving degree of addiction patients is also a difficult thing.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
NON_RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
SINGLE
Enrollment
20
Emotional pictures stimulation system is component of neutral and drug-related images.
Deep brain stimulation of bilateral NAc/ALIC
The electrode of deep brain stimulation has four contacts.We stimulate one contact,and record the local field potential of other contacts.
Department of neurosurgery, Tangdu Hospital
Xi'an, Shaanxi, China
RECRUITINGEvent related potentials(ERPs)
Event related potentials include late positive potential(LPP),P300,mismatch negativity(MMN) and N400.Recording the event related potential when people receive the stimulus of emotional pictures stimulation system.
Time frame: Day 3
local field potential(LFP)
Recording the LFP of DBS group without any stimulation and stimulate one contact in surgery and 3 days after surgery.
Time frame: in surgery,3 days after surgery
the 13-item obsessive compulsive drug use scale(OCDUS)
Time frame: day 3
Opiate Addiction Severity Inventory(OASI)
Time frame: day 3
participants' craving for opioid drugs (VAS)
The 10-point visual analog scale(VAS)will be utilized at day 3.
Time frame: day 3
The Symptom Checklist-90(SCL-90)
The Symptom Checklist-90(SCL-90) is used to evaluate general status.
Time frame: day 3
Self-Rating Depression Scale(SDS)
Self-Rating Depression Scale(SDS) is used to evaluate depression symptom.
Time frame: day 3
Yale-Brown Obsessive Compulsive Scale(Y-BOCS)
Yale-Brown Obsessive Compulsive Scale(Y-BOCS) is used to evaluate obsessive compulsive symptom.
Time frame: day 3
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We put the microelectrodes into bilateral nucleus accumbens and anterior limb of the internal capsule,to record the waveform of bilateral NAc/ALIC.
The Eysenck Personality Questionnaire(EPQ)
Time frame: day 3
The Wechsler Memory Scale(WMS)
Time frame: day 3