A new cocaine vaccine is in the works. A couple of Baylor College of Medicine researchers have been working on this concept in hopes that it would be the first-ever vaccine created to treat people hooked on an illicit drug. The concept behind the vaccine is that it will finally allow the immune system to recognize the cocaine molecules and attack before the user gets high. In that sense the patient will not want cocaine anymore since he or she will lose interest. If this works it will be a huge boost in the treatment of addictions. On the horizon is a hooker vaccine being worked on in an unnamed New York research laboratory near Albany.
Wednesday, March 19, 2008
Vaccines On The Horizon
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