This vaccine is for those who have a desire to quit using the drug, and should be very useful in stopping the addiction. Dr. Tom Kosten, a psychiatry professor is being assisted in the research on the vaccine by his wife Therese, a psychologist and neuroscientist.
The vaccine is there for when people relapse, which many often do, that they don’t get the same sensation as before. In other words, it blocks the high.
The immune system — unable to recognize cocaine and other drug molecules because they are so small — can’t make antibodies to attack them.
To help the immune system distinguish the drug, Kosten attached inactivated cocaine to the outside of inactivated cholera proteins.
In response, the immune system not only makes antibodies to the combination, which is harmless, but also 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.
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