Chesterfield jail testing device to treat drug withdrawls [Video]

At first, Jackie Dameron wasn’t so sure about strapping the electric buzzers to her head.

“Immediately my mind goes to electroshock therapy,” said Dameron, a 29-year-old at the Chesterfield County Jail. “I thought I was going to seize and shake or something.”

But she put them on. The alternative was to withdraw from years of opioid and Xanax use on her own, the horror of which she knew from experience.

The county’s jail is the first in the country to debut a new technology said to help addicts through the harrowing pain of withdrawal – a days-long stretch where the …