New Vaccine May Immunize Addicts from Cocaine's Pleasurable Effects
Tuesday, October 6, 2009 - 14:42
in Health & Medicine
Unlike opiates such as heroin or prescription painkillers, there is no medication specifically approved to help curb cocaine consumption. Now, an experimental vaccine offers hope for a new approach, researchers say, that spurs on antibodies, which bind with cocaine molecules and apparently helps some addicts stop feeling the pleasurable effects of the drug--thus deconditioning them out of their dependency. [More]
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