Andre Waismann

Andre Waismann (, Portuguese: André Waisman) is an Israeli doctor and medical practitioner, notable for development of accelerated neuro-regulation (ANR) treatment of opioid addiction. Waismann currently serves as the head of the ANR unit at the Barzilai Medical Center and director at the ANR Clinic in Florida, US. Hospital Doctors- Barzilai Medical Center WebsiteDr. Waismann Andre - Optimal Pain Treatment Methods, Barzilai Medical Center Website

Anesthesia-assisted detox like ANR has been described in peer-reviewed medical literature as owing to providing "inconsistent rates of opioid abstinence while being costlier and riskier compared to available alternatives."Sobin MF, Ngo L, Lawrence DT, Kirwen A. Managing Subarachnoid Hemorrhage Precipitated by Anesthesia-assisted Rapid Opioid Detoxification: A Case Report. Clin Pract Cases Emerg Med. 2022 Feb;6(1):25-28. doi: 10.5811/cpcem.2021.9.53868. PMID 35226842; PMCID: PMC8885228. Comparison with standard detox methods suggests serious risks without an advantage in terms of efficacy.Collins ED, Kleber HD, Whittington RA, Heitler NE. Anesthesia-assisted vs buprenorphine- or clonidine-assisted heroin detoxification and naltrexone induction: a randomized trial. JAMA. 2005 Aug 24;294(8):903-13. doi: 10.1001/jama.294.8.903. PMID 16118380.

Biography Waismann was born in Brazil in 1958. He studied medicine at Brazil's Serra dos Órgãos University Center in Teresópolis, where he received his doctor degree in 1981.Dr. Waismann's Story, ANR Clinic Website He immigrated the same year to Israel and was drafted to a military service in the Givati Brigade, where he served as a doctor. After completing his service with the Israel Defense Forces, Waismann worked as a doctor in the intensive care unit in the Barzilai Medical Center in Ashkelon. In 1989, Waismann was drafted to the Israeli Police, as a Superintendent, serving as the Jerusalem county doctor.

In 1994, Waismann established intensive care unit for treating addiction to opioids. In 2002 he helped to establish a treatment center in Jalandhar, India using the ANR method.Invitation letter from India In 2012, Waismann established an ANR unit for treatment of addiction in the Barzilai Medical Center.Barzilai Medical Center website, Dr. Andre Waismann developed a unique method for severe addiction detoxification, Barzilai Medical Center website In 2013, Waismann opened a clinic to treat addicts in the FMI hospital in Switzerland. Waismann also served as a consultant for the ASA Bangasa foundation in Indonesia.Publication of ASA Bangasa foundation in Indonesia p. 2 "Yayasan Asa Bangsa pada tahun 1999 memutuskan untuk merealisasikan kerjasama resmi dengan The Israeli Institute of Advance Treatment and Research of Opiate Dependency, Tel Aviv, Israel pimpinan Dr. Andre Waismann untuk dapat menyebarluaskan metoda Neuro-Regulation demi menanggulangi masalah-masalah ketergantungan narkotika."

Waismann also served as the medical director for addiction treatment in the LOGO center and San Raffaele Hospital in Italy.Shannon Davis, HSC to open new, advanced detox center, the University Daily, Vol 75, Issue 116, Texas Tech, 29 March 2000.Karni Eldad, Drug withdrawal in four hours, Makor Rishon, October 31, 2018.6th Dr. Stella M Traweek visiting professor in Geriatric Pain Department of Anesthesiology, Texas Tech University, Health Science Center, 20 March 2000. Texas, USA In October 2018 Waismann was invited to speak at the United Nations human rights convention about methods to cope with the international opioid crisisDrug Policy and Sustainable Development Goals – United Nations' 73rd General Assembly session, October 2018. New York, USAThousand Nights Tales: An Israeli Doctor Detoxified an Arab Leader, Channel 10, 28 October 2010.S. Sunatrio, L. Rachmat, G. Darmansyah, Y. Thedja, Accelerated neuroregulation for therapy of opiate dependency, Medical Journal of Indonesia' 13(1), 1 Feb 2004, pp.53-8

ANR method for treating opioid addiction

From 1993, Waismann started to treat opioid addiction using a relatively new technique named Ultra Rapid Opiate Detoxification (UROD).Jonathan Rabinowitz, Hagit Cohen, Ricardo Tarrasch, Moshe Kotler, Compliance to naltrexone treatment after ultra-rapid opiatedetoxification: an open label naturalistic study, Drug and Alcohol Dependence 47 (1997) 77–86Jonathan Rabinowitz, D.S.W., Hagit Cohen, Ph.D., and Moshe Kotler, M.D., Outcomes of Ultrarapid Opiate Detoxification Combined With Naltrexone Maintenance and Counseling, Psychiatric Services Volume 49 Issue 6, June 1998, pp. 831-833 This method was used until 1997, when Waismann redefined this treatment method and renamed it ANR – Accelerated Neuro-Regulation. The principle on which the ANR therapy is based is the acceleration of the withdrawal symptoms while the patient is under sedation to prevent pain and suffering as a result from these withdrawal symptoms. When the patient is under deep sedation in an intensive care unit, specific drugs are used to block the additional opioid receptors caused by frequent opioid use that generate the craving for the drug in the brain.Barzilai Presents: Treatment for Withdrawal from Addictive Drugs, Behadrei Haredim, 22 June 2015. The ANR treatment method is currently conducted in a number of medical centers in India, Switzerland, Israel, and from 2019 in Florida.Yasmin Lidsky, Drug Withdrawal in a Single Day: Why Isn't It Subsidized?, Ynet, 25 March 2012.Dr. Andre Waismann, Mission Impossible; Heroin Hope at Last, Australia Women's Weekly, 26 September 2019.

Selective works and publications M. Y. Mudaliar, A Waismann, J Currie, L Cruz, Opioid neuroreceptor blockade with naltrexone under sedative anaesthesia in a 6-year-old child with iatrogenic morphine addiction following resection of a desmoplastic infantile ganglioglimoa at age 9 months , Anaesthesia and Intensive Care subscriber, Volume 27, Issue 1 Andre Waismann, Alternative approaches to battling opioid dependency, Florida Weekly, 15 August 2019 Andre Waismann, To end the opioid crisis, we need to change the way we think about the addiction, Washington Examiner, 23 July 2019

Personal life Waismann lives in moshav Ge'a. He is married to Efrat Waismann. They have six children. Since the end of 2018, Waismann lives in the United States, where he works as a private consultant for American medical centers.Doctors Only, A New Method for Drug Withdrawal developed by an Israeli Doctor to be presented in the UN today, Doctors Only, 26.09.2018Meshi Aid, International Honor, The Israeli Doctor that Succeeds in Healing Addicts - to speak in the UN, Ynet, September 25, 2018.

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