Drug Addiction Vaccines

Drug addiction vaccines

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His team is also working on a vaccine to fight food addiction. Additional Information: BACKGROUND: In 2010 there were an estimated 22.6 million Americans over the age of 12 that were current or former illicit drug users within the last month. Another …
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Drug abuse: Opana overtakes OxyContin in U.S.

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Drug abusers could crush or dissolve the pill's time-release coating to get the full punch of the opioid oxycodone. But Purdue Pharma, OxyContin's manufacturer, reformulated it in August 2010, making it nearly impossible to crush, dissolve and inject …
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OxyContin abuse down with time-release formula

Filed under: drug addiction news 2010

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – There's more evidence that the new formulation of OxyContin, the time-release version of oxycodone, is discouraging abuse of the powerful drug. But the reformulation, introduced in August 2010 to make it harder to crush the …
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Drug Wars Abroad, Prescription Pain Killers at Home

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Masked by our continuing drug war in Mexico, and the administration's recent expansion of U.S. drug enforcement into Central America and the Caribbean, is the more serious problem of prescription drug abuse, especially opioids, the class of …
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156-09 (8-28-99) Antibodies May Treat Overdoses, addiction
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Fulfilling The Promise
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Target the drug itself—rather than the implicated neural pathways or receptors—by binding to the drug and blocking its entry into the brain. Cocaine and nicotine vaccines are both under study, and one for methamphetamine addiction is under development. … Access Full Source

Many OxyContin Addicts Switching To Heroin After Formula Change: Study
The company that makes OxyContin altered the formula for the painkiller back in 2010 to deter people from abusing the drug. But many users are just changing their habit instead of kicking it, according to new data. … Read News

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TA-CD, A vaccine For Cocaine addiction -an Update
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PowerPoint Presentation – The Neurobiology Of Addiction
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