Non-pharmaceuticals method of treating the effects of addiction withdrawal are described. The method includes providing a person with stimuli include visual and/or auditory stimuli which are pulsed at the rate of various types of brain waves. The use of the method lessens various withdrawal symptoms, such as anxiety, sleepiness, sweating, tearing of the eyes, running of the nose, goosebumps, shaking, hot flushes, cold flushes, bones aching, muscles aching, restlessness, nausea, vomiting, muscle twitching, stomach cramps, pain, the need to use an opioid, the desire to use an opioid, sleep disturbances. and the use of rescue medications.