Addiction Medicine
Bivalent morphine/heroin vaccine prevents relapse to heroin addiction
Published in Drug Week, June 16th, 2006
According to recent research from Mexico, "Both preclinical and clinical studies make feasible the use of vaccines as novel therapeutic medications to treat drug addiction. No reports to date have shown the development of structural models of opiate candidate vaccines for treating human addiction to such compounds."
"We report on the initial development of a novel structural formulation of a bivalent vaccine against morphine/heroin," said Benito Anton and Philippe Leff at the Mexico National Institute of Psychiatry. "This vaccine was able to trigger and...
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Source: Drug Week (2006-06-16)
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