Clinical tests are already under way for a cocaine vaccine. A new vaccine to blunt the pleasurable effects of cocaine.
Clinical tests are already under way.
The cocaine vaccine competition includes an arresting version being tested by a scientific team at the Scripps Institute in California in La Jolla. The vaccine sets off the body's immune system to attack the cocaine molecule with antibodies. These antibodies essentially blow up the molecule to a size that prevents it from entering the brain. And therefore the cocaine molecule will not trip dopamine, the body's feel-good drug. Related cocaine vaccines already are actually being tested in humans.