Promising new vaccine offers hope of breaking cocaine addiction
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The vaccine is designed to help produce anti-cocaine antibodies in the body of a person who is chemically dependent on the substance.

Scientists in Brazil are developing the first vaccine that could help break cocaine addiction::The vaccine is designed to help produce anti-cocaine antibodies in the body of a person who is chemically dependent on the substance.

  • AnarchoNoAdjectiveEnglish
    175·
    1 year ago

    Addiction is a symptom not a root issue. If the context of someone’s addiction is escapism then this theoretically will just push them to another potentially more harmful method.

    • Lmaydev@programming.devEnglish
      21·
      1 year ago

      For things that are physically addictive, addiction is actually a disease.

      They change the way your brain functions and can elevate themselves to the same level as thirst in some cases.

      You aren’t wrong that other factors can cause a person to use addictive substances and this won’t help with that.

      But many people do addictive substances purely because they get addicted.

      In many cases addiction makes your life way worse and the things you do to feed it are horrendous. So this argument doesn’t apply to many.

          • pete_the_cat@lemmy.worldEnglish
            2·
            1 year ago

            Yet alcohol is and it’s legal in practically every country! You can go out and buy 5 liters of vodka and go home and get shit faced, but you can’t buy weed legally in a lot of places or cocaine legally pretty much anywhere (except for Portugal).

            • pete_the_cat@lemmy.worldEnglish
              3·
              1 year ago

              Heroin was sold in the back of the Sears catalog in the US in the early 1900s! It was marketed to housewives to “take the edge off of a stressful day”.

              You’re absolutely right that it’s all about money and politics. It has always amazed me how (in the US) weed is placed in the same schedule (legal tier of how restricted it is) as heroin and cocaine, saying that they’re extremely addictive and have no medical usage… Which is absolute bullshit. We all know cocaine is a stimulant and numbing agent, heroin was invented by Bayer Pharmaceutical and is a strong pain killer, and we’re discovering that weed has many benefits. Also the US government has a patent for the medicinal usage of cannabis… while simultaneously stating that it has no medicinal usage 😶

                • pete_the_cat@lemmy.worldEnglish
                  1·
                  1 year ago

                  I wouldn’t think of the UK as a good place for growing weed since it’s generally relatively cold and rainy there most of the time isn’t it? That obviously doesn’t matter for hydroponics.

                  Also the US has zero reason to export its weed, we all consume it within the state it’s grown in.

    • CommanderCloonEnglish
      61·
      1 year ago

      Sure but I don’t think there is no one who resolved their root cause but still are hooked by their chemical addiction