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.
