A Vaccine to Cure Addictions?
http://thekojonnamdishow.org/shows/2010-03-08/vaccine-cure-addictions
Can an injection help you stop smoking? Or end a drug addiction? We hear about a new approach to curing addiction that works like the flu vaccine. How your own antibodies could help block cocaine, heroin, or nicotine from reaching the pleasure receptors in your brain.
Guests
Dorothy Hatsukami
Principal Investigator, Tobacco Use Research Center; Professor of Psychiatry; Forster Family Professor in Cancer Prevention, University of Minnesota
Ivan Montoya
Deputy Director, Division of Pharmacotherapies and Medical Consequences of Drug Abuse, National Institute on Drug Abuse
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This seems like something out of A Clockwork Orange. Vaccines to control human behavior, even if that behavior is undesirable, are creepy. I fear that there could be long term consequences of this vaccine that may not surface for many years - such as neurodegenerative diseases, as the immune system also attacks nicotinic receptors at the neuromuscular junction. Furthermore, nicotine may not be the main pleasure seeking part of smoking. A recent study showed that Nicotine Replacement Therapy has only a 0.8% success rate of smokers quitting after 1 year.
I would also like the guests to address what role the pharmaceutical and vaccine industry is playing in anti-smoking policies, including higher taxes, outdoor smoking bans and the creation of third and fourth hand smoke. It seem to me that they are trying to create a big market for this vaccine.
I somewhat agree with Nick in the sense, who is funding this research?
First we have a culture that promotes smoking and add subliminal messaging and try our best as powerful corporations to maximize our profits by having kids start smoking.
Then those same companies fund cessation programs to maximize profits in that direction...seems a bit odd, eh?
Also, what are the side effects of this vaccine? Don't we need twenty years of mass vaccination to find out? Just like with other drugs that get taken off the market after 15-20 years because they find that it caused some other problem.
I wish this was possible but the last time I checked this kind of vaccine didn't exist. I can only daydream about how it would make this world a better world by curing millions of addicts: alcohol addicts, smoking addicts, drug addicts... Apparently so far Narconon Vistabay rehab seems like a more realistic option.
i don't think that addiction will be cure with a injection. and if it is so, does someone should take the injections during the entire life? and what effects will have in time to your body. the "traditional" drug rehab programs are about helping people with any other pill or drugs. you don't give alcohol to an drug addict to release him from his addiction... he will have other complications.