Cocaine Vaccine Leads Addicts to Take Ten Times More Cocaine

[Cinderella]

Over the last decade, the advances in neuroscience that led doctors to view addiction as a disease, rather than a desire or personal failing, raised the natural question of whether or not addicts could be vaccinated against drug use as if it were a virus. While the theory remains valid, the recent clinical trial of one of those vaccines, called TA-CD, highlights the complexity of the issue.

TA-CD works by preventing cocaine from entering the brain, thus stopping the user from getting high. It does not, however, stop cravings, leading some test participants who received the vaccine to take 10 times as much cocaine in the hopes of overriding the vaccine and getting high, or to bankrupt themselves while trying to do so.

http://www.blacklistednews.com/news-6931-0-0-0--.html

 

[giddyup]

TA-CD works by preventing cocaine from entering the brain, thus stopping the user from getting high. It does not, however, stop cravings, leading some test participants who received the vaccine to take 10 times as much cocaine in the hopes of overriding the vaccine and getting high, or to bankrupt themselves while trying to do so.

Or cardiac arrest...

 

[ramallamamama]

Was Rumsfield involved in this one too?

 

[squarepusher]

lol science fail

 

[John E]

Interesting angle of research... hopefully it will pan out into something useful.

 

[Kotin]

Was Rumsfield involved in this one too?

good nose.

 

[dannno]

Interesting angle of research... hopefully it will pan out into something useful.

Ya, think of all the sex addicts we can cure when we figure out how to take away the pleasure of orgasms