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One such vaccine, known as TA-CD (for "therapy for addiction - cocaine addiction"), is being developed by husband-and-wife team Dr. Thomas Kosten, a psychiatry professor, and Therese Kosten, a neuroscientist and psychologist, at Baylor College of Medicine in Texas. TA-CD has had success in early clinical trials...
What if science made a pill to protect us from addiction - keeping us from smoking cigarettes, getting fat or abusing drugs and alcohol? According to encouraging results from several lines of study, it seems that day may be closer than we thought. Researchers in labs around the world are now...
TA-CD has been over a decade in the making, but the science behind it goes back much further. In the 1950s, researchers developed a vaccine to block fatal overdoses of the heart drug digitalis. In the 1970s University of Chicago researchers prompted monkeys to develop antibodies to heroin by...
TA-CD is currently designed as a therapeutic drug, however, not a preventive, says Kosten. For people struggling to overcome addiction or avoid relapse, the vaccine can reduce the rate of uptake of cocaine and slow the high. Even still, determined users can thwart the vaccine by taking more cocaine...
Yes. Officials at Merck and Sanofi Pasteur - the companies that produce the 14 million doses of Hib vaccine administered each year - are working with CDC officials to ensure that the shortage is addressed as quickly as possible, but some doctors who received their entire supply of vaccine from Merck may...