Tuesday, February 16, 2016

TSRI scientists create vaccine against dangerous designer opioids

(Scripps Research Institute) With use of synthetic opioid 'designer drugs' on the rise, scientists from The Scripps Research Institute have a new strategy to curb addiction and even prevent fatal overdoses. In a new study, the scientists report successful preclinical tests of a vaccine that prevents the synthetic opioid fentanyl -- which some drug dealers now use as a mix-in or substitute for heroin -- from reaching the brain.

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