Researcher Makes a Career Developing Cocaine Vaccine

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Imagine 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. [...]

To be continued on: Researcher Makes a Career Developing Cocaine Vaccine, But Pharmaceutical Companies Won

[slikrapid]

Imagine if you came up with a simple but powerful idea: create a vaccine against the most addictive drugs.

forget it, vaccines don't work, not with simple flu, let alone something more complicated - what these will do is: create numerous new addicts to the actual vaccine (add in those that simply want to protect their children against the 'bad' neighborhood with preventive vaccination) and cause all kinds of additional adverse health effects

anyone genetically screened for a family history of addiction could effectively manage their physiological drives with a shot.

nonsense, genetic screening can't tell you anything substantial (its pretty much guesswork, there are no on/off genes for any particular kind of addiction), physiological drives can be controlled by one's will alone without the need for any drugs

War on Drugs

is fake, just like 'war on terror' or 'war on global warming' or whathaveyou

[Khanna]

forget it, vaccines don't work, not with simple flu, let alone something more complicated - what these will do is: create numerous new addicts to the actual vaccine (add in those that simply want to protect their children against the 'bad' neighborhood with preventive vaccination) and cause all kinds of additional adverse health effects



nonsense, genetic screening can't tell you anything substantial (its pretty much guesswork, there are no on/off genes for any particular kind of addiction), physiological drives can be controlled by one's will alone without the need for any drugs



is fake, just like 'war on terror' or 'war on global warming' or whathaveyou

well I agree with the last part that "war on drugs" is as fake as "war on terror"

but dude vaccines do work for specific diseases, for example look at Polio vaccine, yellow fever vaccines, DPT, MMR & countless others.

& to OP, the link you provide shows Page not found.

[slikrapid]

vaccines do work for specific diseases, for example look at Polio vaccine, yellow fever vaccines, DPT, MMR & countless others.

nope, check the following for details:

http://www.whale.to/v/polio2.htm

there are countless other examples, medicine & pharma sure keep up with others regarding their own share of skeletons in the closet