Cocaine Vaccine In the Works

martyros writes "Researchers at the Baylor College of Medicine are performing clinical trials of a vaccine that teaches the immune system to attack cocaine, preventing it from giving a high. The vaccine is made by attaching inactivated cocaine molecules to the outside of inactivated cholera proteins. When the immune system attacks the cholera proteins, it also 'learns' the cocaine molecules as well. The result is that the immune system 'recognizes the potent naked drug when it's ingested. The antibodies bind to the cocaine and prevent it from reaching the brain, where it normally would generate the highs that are so addictive.'" An earlier story from The Star notes that human trials for vaccines against both cocaine and nicotine are well under way.

Comments

Re:Analogs

[afxgrin]

I fucking hope this thing works for users who inject it... because snorting coke isn't enough for long term users.

Re:Chantix Works Fine (i have firsthand experience

[Dorceon]

Chantix worked for you, but does it work for everybody? A quick Google search suggests that its side effects can include psychotic disorder and hallucination. That sounds like something you would want an alternative to.

Re:Addictions are misunderstood.

[elsJake]

They should've given you a vaccine to prevent you from ever enjoying fatherhood , after all it could drive you to suicide if one of your children ever died and it's also way more expensive to care for children than to neuter you . Not a father , voluntarily consuming o nicotine, alcohol.

Re:Mods on coke REALLY THIS TIME

[morari]

People without the will power to stop themselves from doing something that they don't want to do should die. We don't need any more of their kind in the world. Of course, most of the people want to be doing it anyway.

What you spout is a bunch of politically correct, coddling bullshit. Sometimes the simple act of injecting is a cry for help? Riiight. I guess taking a required half semester of psychology at the local community college has paid off for you, considering you can dissect people so thoroughly and find a way to take blame off of them!

Society would be a lot better off if modern medicine's resources went into trying to solve actual problems as opposed to ones create by weak willed individuals.