Could 'Memory Erasing' Implants Help Prevent Drug Addiction?

The article “Could ‘Memory Erasing’ Implants Help Prevent Drug Relapses? It Worked for These Rats” by Brandon Specktor (2019) explores a thought-provoking study done by professor Mary Torregrossa. Torregrossa is a professor of psychiatry who studies the psychology of drug addiction. In her study, she set some rats up in a cage with a button. If they pressed that button, they would get a dose of cocaine. Along with the cocaine, every time the rats pressed the button, an audiovisual cue sounded. After a while, the rats began to associate the cue with getting cocaine so, every time they heard…