Scientists in Brazil, the world's second-biggest consumer of cocaine, have announced the development of an innovative new treatment for addiction to the drug and its powerful derivative crack: a vaccine.
    • Longpork_afficianado@lemmy.nz
      5·
      1 year ago

      My thoughts too.

      It prompts an immune response that prevents cocaine reaching the brain, which in itself might be a good last-line of defence for someone relapsing, to prevent them from retriggering a cycle of dependency.

      But what happens when a person suffering major withdrawals doesnt get a response from one line of coke? More lines of coke is what I would expect. What effects are extreme doses of cocaine going to have on other parts of the body when the user is upping their dose trying to get something to pass through the blood-brain barrier?

      • Vqhm@lemmy.world
        2·
        1 year ago

        Necessity is the mother of invention, so, in the future drug offenders will be innoculated against drugs.

        But due to the the ingenuity of drug users they will simply inject drugs directly into the parts of their brains that produces the strongest response.

        Drug dealers will go high tech.

        Nanobots will crawl up your nose in a spray before passing into your brain and dump drugs on just the right spot.

      • southsamurai@sh.itjust.works
        1·
        1 year ago

        Exactly. This is one of those things where it’s a great tool to have available, but needs to be a last line option, not the go-to