The immunization will be implemented in four doses and will be accompanied by psychological therapy. It seeks to prevent the passage of drugs to the nervous system and its effect is pleasant. Participants of proof: 150 addicts.

The Hospital de Sant Pau in Barcelona, Spain, will coordinate the testing of a vaccine against cocaine in which a total of 150 patients of that city, Valencia and Madrid but the test was not home yet confirmed.

The head of the unit addictive behaviors psychiatry service center, Jose Perez de los Cobos, told the news agency EFE, as cited by Spanish daily, that patients who are selected must be between 18 and 50 years and not suffer other physical illnesses.

The launching of this project is still not strong as it depends on a final agreement between the laboratory has synthesized the vaccine and the Spanish group that will coordinate the work.

It is expected that the agreement was formalized in September so the trial will not start before next year.

This will be the first project of its kind in Europe and reportedly what is being sought with the vaccine, targeted at people already addicted, is “that there are no side effects” of the consumption of this substance.

It contains a molecule very similar to that of cocaine, but adulterated to be recognized by the immune system as foreign. So the agency will act causing antibodies that prevent those molecules reach the brain, reported the Spanish daily El Mundo.

The vaccine prevents anticocaine their passage to the nervous system and its effect pleasant. Its aim is that addicts gradually abandon the habit by not getting what they want.

Reportedly, the administration of immunization would be carried out in four doses, will be supplemented by psychological therapy, important for success.

Sources: Perfil

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