New Vaccine May Immunize Addicts from Cocaine's Pleasurable Effects

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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