For several years my clinic practiced what I would call “traditional” addiction medicine. I have used and continue to use medications that are effective in the treatment of substance abuse; medications like buprenorphine, also known as suboxone or subutex, to help opiate dependent patients slowly detox off their drugs of abuse and stabilize them with medications that prevent withdrawal and craving. A patient who’s life is out of control because of heroin or pain pill abuse can transform themselves with suboxone. We see it everyday. Patients can now function, work, be present for their families, and enjoy the lives they had once nearly destroyed.
But then I learned about Dr. Metsayer and the Brain Restoration Therapy Program NAD+ he was operating in Louisiana. I’m about as skeptical as they come; when Dr. Metsayer told me about the results of his IV infusions of NAD, I didn’t believe him. He told me about patients on high doses of opiates who experienced very little withdrawal and left the clinic 10 days later with no withdrawal symptoms and no cravings…essentially cured. The same was also true for alcohol. Folks who had never gone to the supermarket before without buying a bottle, now do not even think about it. They don’t crave or think about alcohol at all!