 (Michael S. Williamson/The Washington Post) | By Lenny Bernstein After nearly two decades of hardcore drug addiction — after overdoses and rehabs and relapses, homelessness and dead friends and ruined lives — Gerod Buckhalter had one choice left, and he knew it. He could go on the same way and die young in someone's home or a parking lot, another casualty in a drug epidemic that has claimed nearly 850,000 people like him. Or he could let a surgeon cut two nickel-size holes in his skull and plunge metal-tipped electrodes into his brain. Read more » More from The Post | Get 4 weeks for just $4 Essential reporting. In-depth stories. Unlimited access. | | | | | 
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