05/08/08
Vaccine for cocaine addiction ?
A Houston doctor has developed a vaccine for cocaine addiction, I saw a brief story on the news about it.That would be pretty amazing if it did work. I wonder what the side affects would be. Is it the same as those naltrexone implants?
This is some more of it:vaccine for cocaine addiction
…The vaccine does not stop the craving for cocaine, but will stop addicts experiencing a high when they take it.
The company says this prevents the people becoming re-addicted. …Antibodies
Mr Oxlade added: “The vaccine for cocaine addicts works in very much the same way a regular vaccine works.
“The reason cocaine addicts can take the drug for years without mounting any sort of immune response is because the drug has very small molecules.”
He explained that the vaccine is created by attaching the cocaine to a large protein molecule which is used to stimulate the body’s immune system to produce antibodies that recognise the drug.
Mr Oxlade added: “It stops the cocaine from being able to get across from the blood into the brain, which is where you get the high and, of course, where you get the addiction.
“If somebody takes the vaccine as part of a programme in a drug centre and after a month or so is out and takes another dose of cocaine, they won’t get the high and they won’t get the re-addiction.”
He said it was possible that addicts would simply switch to another drug, but said evidence from three US trials showed that only happened in a small number of cases.
A spokeswoman for Drugscope told BBC News Online: “This is a really interesting study. It’s clear that the vaccine seems to be working well for some cocaine addicts.
That would be something or not.Already Kosten asked the Food and Drug Administration in December to green-light a multi-institutional trial to begin in the spring and is awaiting a response. Approval would mark a breakthrough in the treatment of cocaine addiction, which now mostly involves psychiatric counseling and 12-step programs. It presumably would be the final clinical hurdle before the vaccine - more than a decade in the making - might be approved for treatment.
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A vaccine that prevents the addict from feeling the effects...that's not the "cure"..
The ONLY WAY ...period ...end of story..that a crack/cocaine addict will not become active...is total abstinence of all mind altering substances..
All the vaccine would do is give yet another reason/excuse for the addict to use...and another overdose trying to get the effect..
Seen it too many times with heroin...
Instead of trying to find a "cure" with medicine...which is totally profit-based..why not try to fix the flow of cocaine into the country...or fix the ills of society which drive our members to first experiment with drugs in the first place...
Pain is a great motivator...and pain is a great excuse to "run away" from yourself at first...did anyone EVER SEE a "SOCIAL" crack/cocaine user....no..
Cut the crap people...it's all bull)(*%$$..the drugs come into the USA cause of money...
If people stopped using drugs...there goes our court system..there goes legal fees for the lawyers...there goes the popluation of the jalis...the cops wouldn't have anything to do and they would lose the drug money when they sell the evidence..
Drugs are a source of income for our economy...gonna stay that wat to..
If nobody got addicted..there would be a lot of jobs lost...and the BS high dollar "treatment centers" would be out of business...
Don't believe it...if you have not been "on the stret" and see what is and has happened to our society...don't come around and say you have a "cure" or "help" that is profit-based..
How many straight people ran out of drugs and then would do absolutely anything in order not to "run out" again..and chase it to insanity...and STILL want one more...
Addicts don't want pity...they really feel like crap about themselves...about what they are doing to themselves..the guilt and shame is unbearable to some..then comes the suicide attempts..
They want help...a way out..but usually they are dead broke...homeless...no family...no job...no nothing..and a treatment facility goes for over $ 1,000 per day ?????
What the heck is going on ?????
Why would a young dope dealer in New York, Washington,Chicago...work at McDonalds or Wal-Mart for $ 250.00 per week...when he can make that in 15 minutes on the street...that's the real deal America..as long as there is supply and demand...bingo..it ain't going away..
In fact some of the best crack/cocaine can be found less than 8 blocks from the White House...you don't think they know what's going on ???
How come a person on the corner in Suburbia lasts about 5 minutes..if their color of their skin don't match the neighborhood...before they will get attention from the Police...but yet that same person can go into the ghettos and make 1 grand a day selling to white people...young kids in their Daddy's cars....crack/heroin..they are designed to KILL people...after they get all of the money out the user...economics my friend..
And don't believe pot ain't in the same boat... nor alcohol.
Be real...we are all in this for the money or thrill...living on the edge...once we accept THAT...then we can go on and correct this...until then...sorry no CURE...
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