After Surviving the Apocalypse, I Built a City in Another World novel Chapter 1682

Chapter 1682: Treatments (Part 1)

Alterra, a week later

While the things settled down in the new associated territories, there were quite a few things happening in Alterra as well.

For one, the cure for the drug addiction was finally completed!

It was a joint project between the hospital and the research center, and definitely a source of celebration.

The medicine was something injected into the bloodstream. It functioned to cleanse the body completely of the drug’s effects, which was actually better than what Terran had back then.

At first, their approach against drug addiction was what had been used in Terran. Back then, one had to rehabilitate, slowly calibrating the body to get used to functioning without it. There was no immediate-acting medicine to fix the problem.

This was because drug addiction wasn’t a chemical problem—it was a brain rewiring problem.

Drugs didn’t just flood the brain with dopamine, it would reprogram the perception of reward, motivation, and memory circuits.

As such, dealing with it was a slow process using various methods including some medicines and IV fluids. Considering how dangerous the world was, it was impractical to let people be incapacitated for so long.

Building rehabilitation centers for every affected person would be too costly and space consuming as well.

Further, they saw the pandemic getting bigger with many powerhouses pushing for it. They seemed to have the impression that it wouldn’t have much negative effects on them.

On the contrary, because they could afford and handle taking more than others, they were not excempt from the possibility of losing themselves completely from it.

They’d even be more dangerous because they were strong and would be able to cause more damage. Alterra acknowledged this and saw the need to find a quick fix.

Hence, Volohov and Althea dedicated teams to create a medicine that could quickly handle it.

Fortunately, in Terran, there were some medicines that could slightly reduce withdrawals, cravings, or relapse risks by stabilizing brain chemistry. It was just that they wouldn’t erase addiction itself. The person still had to rebuild healthy habits in time, and by their own will.

What they had to do was develop a similar drug, but much more potent. The side effect would be that they might not enjoy things as much as before, at least until their bodies fixed themselves.

After several weeks of dedicated study, they really found one. This was possible partially because of their improved physiques here. The medicine would not have worked on normal Terrans, but the improved physiques could absorb and integrate the solutions better, making a permanent treatment possible.

They were even eyeing two future improvements: something that’d make the takers be averse to taking the drugs again and another, to cleanse the body of the existing impurities that collected in their bodies.

There were a lot of trial and errors too and the initial batches, and they ended up making things for other stuff.

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