Will there be a vaccine against the addiction to the cocaine?

The humanity keeps on being surprised with the last advances and discoveries of the world of the medicine, unthinkable in other epochs. For example, one of the most important news of last days is related to the creation of a vaccine against the addiction to the cocaine, one of the most well-known and emaciated drugs of the planet.

Although the topic of the Flu TO H1N1, and the urgent need for the massive production of a vaccine to fight an illness that has caused the death of almost 5.000 persons in the world, it has captured the attention of the world, the scientists do not stop keeping on investigating in other areas of the medicine.

For example, the mass media did to themselves echo of the news about that there exists the possibility that in a future the addicts to the cocaine highly addictive and stimulating (drug of the central nervous system) could resort to a medical treatment to stop consuming.

As regards this topic, it is necessary to mention that the first tests realized in the United States in human beings, to whom him the first doses of the vaccine were applied against the addiction to the cocaine, he reported the web site of the BBC, that he added that these were realized by a team of the School of Medicine of the University of yale.

Given in 55 persons for approximately six months, this vaccine had effect in 38 % of the patients. As he informed the web of the BBC, the same ones managed to reach the suitable antibodies levels to stop experiencing the sensation of euphoria that produces the drug. Although also one concluded that this effect only lasted two months therefore it was necessary to repeat the treatment with other injections, he published the web.

It is very early to know when the vaccine might be free, since newly one is in an initial stage and it still had not turned out to be completely successful, but it is important to add that this news gives hope to all those that has problems of addiction and they want to move away from the cocaine to begin a more healthy life.

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