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The scientist who gave it his all—including his brain—to revolutionize addiction treatment


Inside Frank Plummer’s brain
The legendary scientist turned to highly experimental deep brain stimulation to treat his own alcoholism. He’d devoted his whole life to science, he joked. Why not his brain, too? The research he took part in is revolutionizing how we treat the world’s most stigmatized illnesses.
January 26, 2021
Plummer was a leading expert in infectious diseases; his death is a significant loss for Canada as we navigate this pandemic, says Kennelly (John Woods/CP)
The first time Jo Kennelly met Frank Plummer, she barely noticed him.
It was 2006. She was the Ottawa-based policy director to Tony Clement, then the federal minister of health, and she and Clement were in Toronto attending the International AIDS Conference as Canada’s representatives. Plummer, scientific director of Winnipeg’s National Microbiology Lab and one of the world’s top experts in infectious diseases, was the scientist assigned to the federal team. But Kennelly, a ....

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