To be continued on: Researcher Makes a Career Developing Cocaine Vaccine, But Pharmaceutical Companies WonImagine if you came up with a simple but powerful idea: create a vaccine against the most addictive drugs. It could therapeutically help countless numbers of addicts overcome their substance dependency. Those at high-risk for drug use could be inoculated and avoid an entire destructive lifestyle. Furthermore, anyone genetically screened for a family history of addiction could effectively manage their physiological drives with a shot. What effect would all of this treatment have on society? It might be the very thing to win the “War on Drugs” that has cost American taxpayers over $1 trillion over the last 40 years. An idea like that is the stuff that careers are built on. Dr. Thomas Kosten, who came up with this idea as a student, has spent the last 20 years working with his wife, Therese, who has a Ph.D. in psychology and neuroscience, making this simple idea into a reality. That’s right – a cocaine vaccine has been developed and is currently in a Phase II trial that is set to complete in 2014. [...]
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