January 4, 2008

Researchers working on a cocaine vaccine

Researchers from the Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas, are working on a vaccine that could change the dark world of drug addiction forever.

The problem with any addiction is the fact that no matter how long you are free from your addiction, whether it is drink, smoking or drugs, it only takes one lapse in rigid self control and they are back to square one. This is where a treatment such as this vaccine would come into its own.

The vaccine which targets cocaine addiction is currently in clinical trails, it works by stimulating the immune system into attacking the cocaine when it introduced into the system, and normally it would be able to, because as with all drugs the molecules are so small to be detected.

Source [Yahoo]