“Typically, health insurance doesn’t cover these therapies, so people have to pay the hefty bills themselves, a cost that can reach upward of US $15,000 for an entire course of treatment.”
Regulators have approved transcranial magnetic stimulation for addiction only to help smokers quit. Most studies on harder drugs are small and short and borrow pulse settings from depression treatment. Clinics already sell it off-label for opioids, cocaine and alcohol anyway. People with an addiction are paying $15,000 to be the trial.