A 'Vaccine For Addiction' Is No Simple Fix according to : NPR

A 'Vaccine For Addiction' Is No Simple FixEnlarge this image toggle caption kimberrywood/Getty Images kimberrywood/Getty ImagesIt's always appealing to think that there could be an easy technical fix for a complicated and serious problem. So antibodies generated by a heroin vaccine, for instance, would prevent the molecules that cause euphoria from getting into the brain. But his first priority is to test a heroin vaccine in people. So Janda is hoping to get the money he needs from a pharmaceutical company, as other opioid vaccine developers have done. "I think we need to look at other ways of treating opioid addiction," he says, "and I think this can help."




"In this case, the antibodies are against the drugs of abuse."So antibodies generated by a heroin vaccine, for instance, would prevent the molecules that cause euphoria from getting into the brain. "That is the biggest challenge, to get enough antibodies," Montoya tells NPR. But his first priority is to test a heroin vaccine in people. So Janda is hoping to get the money he needs from a pharmaceutical company, as other opioid vaccine developers have done. Janda knows that a vaccine would supplement, rather than replace, the current approaches to treating addiction.

A 'Vaccine For Addiction' Is No Simple Fix

So antibodies generated by a heroin vaccine, for instance, would prevent the molecules that cause euphoria from getting into the brain. "That is the biggest challenge, to get enough antibodies," Montoya tells NPR. But his first priority is to test a heroin vaccine in people. So Janda is hoping to get the money he needs from a pharmaceutical company, as other opioid vaccine developers have done. Janda knows that a vaccine would supplement, rather than replace, the current approaches to treating addiction.


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