A promising cocaine vaccine under development by government scientists, for example, has stalled in the past few months because its corporate sponsor was bought out and the new owner is rethinking the firm's corporate strategy. The vaccine project could be dumped. Md. He is director of its division of treatment research and development. He has clearly developed a rationale for further testing. The epilepsy treatment has been shown to cause tunnel vision in some users.
Addiction is a big problem.
About 14.8 million Americans are engaged in some sort of drug abuse. There are, however, no medications approved by the Food and Drug Administration for treating addiction to cocaine, LSD, PCP, marijuana, methamphetamine and other stimulants. At present, the federal government's top addiction-research priority is the development of a medication to treat cocaine dependency. Dewey's base of operations is a Department of Energy laboratory near the tip of Long Island. One day in 1991, Dewey was struck by the thought that vigabatrin might be useful in treating drug addiction.