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A Scientific Breakthrough On Addiction That Is Available Today
By Ron Miller
Contributing Writer

In my experience, addicts who have been around a while through various detox programs and such talk about neurotransmitters and receptors like they were the latest things in cell phones. They are especially aware of the pleasure response receptors that drugs like heroin lock on to creating both addiction and euphoria. What most are unaware of is that those same drugs have damaged the neurotransmitters and receptors in the brain leaving a vacuum of craving which, if unfulfilled, leads to painful withdrawal.

In some individuals who become addicts the use of alcohol or drugs triggers an imbalance of neurotransmitters in the reward centers of the brain.
Research has shown that the craving for drugs and alcohol is caused by an imbalance of the neurotransmitters and when the addict is without the drug he or she goes through painful, uncomfortable and sometimes life threatening withdrawal.


What if you could correct the chemical imbalance of chemicals in the brain caused by addiction and restore the neural receptors which have been overly stimulated by the use of drugs to a normal state?
That was what Dr. William Hitt, an award winning physician and pioneering scientist wondered. In the 1980’s, after a lifetime of study on the effects of amino acids on the brain, Dr. Hitt completed his study on a process known as Neurotransmitter restoration or NTR.

At the invitation of the Mexican Government and with the support of the UN and the World Health Organization he opened a clinic in Tijuana, Mexico and under the study treated approximately 3000 patients using NTR.The NTR ...»»

 

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