Is neurofeedback effective for hydrocodone addiction treatment?

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The Brain Tuner / The Bio Tuner BT-7 There was a Rock and Roll group that was formed in the 1960s in England. It was called "The Who." Back then narcotics were being pushed to hook people on the drugs. Anyway, one of the members of the group who wrote a lot of their music is / was named Pete Townshend. Over the years this guy got hooked on heroin, among other things. A female Scottish doctor by the name of Dr. Margaret (Meg) Patterson, MD., came across some findings of a Dr. working in a Hong Kong hospital by the name of Dr. H. L. Wen. He found that electro-acupuncture that was used to anesthetize patients in Hong Kong for surgical procedures had the side effect of stopping their addictions to heroin. So with his help, Dr. Meg Patterson assembled some functional and operational specifications for a prototype electrical black box pulsing device and contracted an engineering firm in the UK to make it for them. At some point, Pete Townshend of the Who heard of their development efforts and some successful test cases and became a patient of Dr. Meg Patterson by flying over to meet with her in the USA where she was trying to start a manufacturing business to make the medical black box devices. Townshend was treated, and an author in Omni Magazine took notice and wrote a large article about it. OMNI Magazine, Volume 5, Number 4, January 1983 an Article was written by Kathleen McAuliffe, "The Black Box: Secret Drug Treatment of Rock Superstars" described how a "Brain Tuner" black box was used by Dr. Margaret A. Patterson, MD., to cure British rock star Pete Townshend of "The Who" of his addiction to heroin. An FDA official who Meg Patterson was in contact with knew of a man who could help get the black box manufacturing business going into the mainstream. The man was Dr. Robert C. Beck, DSc., Physics, USC, (1925-2002). Beck explained to them how he had been experimenting since the 1960s with electro-medicine, and had collected over 100 such electrical black boxes, some made as long ago as the 1940s in places like Russia and Sweden, so that he could study their effects, know what frequencies and waveforms were used and so on. Beck told the group who wanted to manufacture the equipment that they could get FDA approval quickly if they grandfathered their device on the existing similar device known as the TENS units, but the group decided not to do this and tried to gain approval via clinical trial testing and whatnot. Eventually, in 1982, Dr. Bob Beck developed the "Brain Tuner" black box machine, which uses a form of CES Cranial electrotherapy stimulation. Research using the Brain Tuner is mentioned in several popular culture, new age, and alternative medicine books. In the 1990s until his untimely death in 2002 from a fall causing head injury that later resulted in cardiac arrest, Beck lectured the alternative health show circuits across the USA promoting what he called "The Beck Protocol." Beck approved a company being run by Vancouver BC, Canada native Russ Torlage, engineering technologist, to manufacture the electro-medical devices Russ had designed and builds to this day operating as SOTA Instruments Inc (SOTA = State of The Art). On one of the many web sites that talks about Bob Beck's medical research / inventions / lectures / health protocol is a audio .mp3 file of a lecture Bob did in the 1980s about the Brain Tuner / Bio Tuner technology. The talk mentions "Paul Tyler" as the FDA person who put Bob in contact with Dr. Meg Patterson. Discussions on blogs about Dr. Bob Beck's Brain Tuner are that the new versions use ear clips to attach to the ear lobes, and do not attach to the acupuncture meridian lines behind the ear that was originally used during the Hong Kong surgical operations where the addiction recovery discoveries were reported / made-so the new versions may produce the right signals but do not attach to the right places to make them work properly on addition recoveries. With the help of some acupuncture research, you could determine the proper contact points to attach the electrodes or acupuncture needles to make the electronic pulse frequency black box addiction cure work properly? See the related links below for additional information about electro-stimulation for addiction treatment...