Vaccine For Cocaine
Summary
A new vaccine to help treat cocaine addiction is ready for human trials. One of the vaccine’s creators, Dr. Bridget Martell, believes that this vaccine can potentially be used to help people curb addiction, such as for heroin and nicotine, as well.
The vaccine acts like a vaccine that fights disease, by stimulating the body to develop antibodies, which bind to the cocaine and prevent it from entering the brain. The vaccine only lasts two months, so booster shots might be needed. There are also concerns that users of cocaine, no longer feeling the effect of the cocaine, might overdose in a continued effort to get high. Much more testing is needed.
Keywords: cocaine vaccine, genetically modified mice, the hals report, anti-immunity cocaine, Bridget Martell, Yale school of medicine
