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Anti-cocaine vaccine shows promise in mice

Brant — Mon, 10 Jan 2011 03:35:56 +0000

A new vaccine shows promise for producing immunity to cocaine’s highly addictive effects. The study – in mice – is published online in Molecular Therapy, one of the Nature journals.

Cocaine is a powerful addictive stimulant that is snorted, smoked or injected. When cocaine enters the central nervous system it produces a sense of euphoria, pleasure and increased energy in the user. It also can cause dangerous increases in blood pressure and heart rate. In 2008, 5.3 million Americans age 12 and older had abused cocaine in any form and 1.1 million had abused crack at least once in the year prior to being surveyed, according to data from the National Institute on Drug Abuse.

“Cocaine is an addictive drug with no therapy,” said lead study investigator Dr. Ronald Crystal, who called the findings “very promising.”

“One strategy is to treat the addiction using a vaccine against the addictive molecule,” said Crystal, chairman of genetic medicine at Weil Cornell Medical College. His research team created a vaccine produced by combining an inactive common-cold virus with a chemical that imitates cocaine.

The vaccine was able to trigger a robust immune response in the vaccinated mice, producing antibodies that attached themselves to the cocaine molecules and prevented them from passing through the blood-brain barrier, where cocaine acts on the central nervous system. When the vaccinated mice were then injected with cocaine, they showed no reaction to the drug. In contrast, Crystal explained, the control mice, who did not receive the vaccine “went crazy” and became highly active and agitated when injected with cocaine.

Read the full article at CNN.com.

Lindsay Lohan- the Cocaine Scandal

Brant — Wed, 27 Jun 2007 23:59:03 +0000

Only 20 days out of rehab, and Lindsay is at it again. We’re not sure exactly what she expects to gain from her erratic behavior, but Lindsay is definitely going for the shock approach to gaining publicity. Of course, her friend says that publicity was the only reason she even went to the 3-day rehab for her alcoholism to begin with. She wanted to look like she was getting help, but in reality it didn’t help at all. In fact now she even carries around Vodka in her water bottles to try to throw people off. But that is not what all the media is talking about.

Lindsay (according to an anonymous friend) recently did 20 lines of cocaine in a one night stint, all night starting at about 8:00pm and all the way through the morning at 11:00am. There are photographs and video tape of Lindsay in a bathroom stall pulling a small packet of white powder from her pocket and proceeded to shove some of it up her friend’s nose before snorting some herself. The images are dark and blurry and Lindsay denies that it is even her, but everybody still agrees that it is Lindsay.

Lindsay allegedly proceeded to snort her 20 lines of cocaine throughout the rest of the night- that’s about 2.5 grams of coke. In the video she says that she’s going to leave the next day to see Jude Law, who is one of the many male celebrities she is claiming to have had sex with, including James Blunt, Calum Best, Jared Leto, and several others.

We’re not sure where Lindsay is headed but we hope that she can find some real help soon. If you or a loved one is suffering from drug abuse, get the help you deserve at a qualified drug rehabilitation center today.

All info taken from Wikipedia.