Drug Addiction Vaccines

Drug addiction vaccines

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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 shocking fact, over six million children in America live with at least one parent who …
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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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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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Vaccines For Addiction
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Themed Issue: Drug Addiction – From Basic Research to Therapies Guest Editors – Rao Rapaka and Wolfgang Sadée Corrigendum: Current Status of Immunologic Approaches to Treating Tobacco Dependence: Vaccines and Nicotine-speci? c Antibodies … View Document

Drug Abuse And Addiction
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Vaccine Set To Tackle Nicotine Addiction
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Both pre-clinical 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. … Document Viewer

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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

The New Science Of Addiction: Bioethics Scenario: Addiction
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Vaccine To Help Fight Cocaine Addiction
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