Topic: Addiction vaccines

[Nemesis]

Link 1

The immune system — unable to recognize cocaine and other drug molecules because they are so small — can't make antibodies to attack them.

To help the immune system distinguish the drug, Kosten attached inactivated cocaine to the outside of inactivated cholera proteins.

In response, the immune system not only makes antibodies to the combination, which is harmless, but also recognizes the potent naked drug when it's ingested. The antibodies bind to the cocaine and prevent it from reaching the brain, where it normally would generate the highs that are so addictive.

Link 2

The promise of a magic bullet, a quick fix that would tear people away from drug dependency, is enticing to researchers, clinicians and addicts alike. But even as the technology is being perfected in laboratories, experts doubt that a single type of treatment will be able to solve addiction, a complex puzzle that affects dozens of brain processes and arises from myriad environmental, economic and social situations.

Anti-addiction vaccines also come with a host of ethical dilemmas: Should parents be allowed to inoculate their children against cocaine and nicotine?

Should convicted drug offenders have to be vaccinated against their illegal habit before entering prison? Should a vaccine be forced upon people, whether a person with mental illness or a pregnant mother, to protect their health?

A 2005 Yale University clinical trial of 18 cocaine addicts in early treatment found that cocaine antibodies persisted in the blood six months after inoculation, and subjects reported the usual euphoric effect of cocaine had diminished.

Clinical trials of nicotine vaccines have also met with success and experts say one of these vaccines will likely hit the market in as little as three years.

A 2005 clinical trial out of the University of Minnesota looked at NicVAX, a vaccine produced by Nabi Biopharmaceuticals based in Boca Raton, Fla. It found 38 per cent of smokers who received a higher dose of the vaccine quit smoking for one month, compared with 9 per cent of the placebo group.

"This is proof of principle that this (vaccine) can help people quit smoking," says study author Dorothy Hatsukami, the Forster family professor in cancer prevention at the University of Minnesota.

[FPF-Tobin Dax]

Naltrexone is a safe opiate blocker that is available and has been for years.  So why is this needed?

No vaccine, period, should be forced on anybody. Anyone remember their history and the Nuremberg trials?  No right to conduct scientific experimentation without full consent and full disclosure. Think you are getting full disclosure on vaccines? You're not. Full consent is on it's way out as we talk. You should check out the jokers in New Jersey who without any medical knowledge and against medical community advice are legislating mandatory vaccines. Mercury is on it's way back into more vaccines as a very poor but cheap anti-fungal. Aluminum is in there to trigger an immune response and then there's Formaldehyde.  Is anyone disclosing info like that and more to you when you roll up your sleeve for your flu shot? The Nuremburg trials also ruled that the needs of the many do not outweigh the needs of the few, so it wrong to be administering vaccines when the FDA, CDC and the pharmaceuticals know there will be injuries and deaths, that's why there is the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System, not that most doctors will report these events as the CDC estimates less than 10% of events get reported.

It's bad enough what we breathe in and eat, but let's bypass the immune system and inject toxic metals and wonder why our population's health declines as the number of vaccines administered continually goes up.

http://www.putchildrenfirst.org/media/6.18.pdf     read section 3 if nothing else and see how secure you feel.

[Nemesis]

Whether a vaccine should be mandated or not is more a topic for Hot and Spicy. 

This is more for discussion of the scientific and technological implications.  Details on side effects are definitely appropriate.

What I find of interest is that there are (or at least it looks like there will be) cures for various chemical addictions that may allow those addicted who wish to break the addiction to break it more easily.  A cure if possible is far better than a treatment that may have problems of its own and may need to be continued for years.

[FPF-Tobin Dax]

Naltrexone works and is even helping with auto immune diseases. Google Low dose naltrexone. It seems to be working well for those with MS.

[jualdeaux]

Moral and technical issues aside, this would be nice for the physical symptoms but it will do nothing for the mental aspect of addictions. and it doesn't help with the reasons why people started using in the first place.