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.
http://thekojonnamdishow.org/shows/2010-03-08/vaccine-cure-addictions
A Vaccine to Cure Addictions?
Monday, Mar. 8, 2010 at 1:06 p.m. in Health, Science, SocietyGuests
Dorothy Hatsukami
Principal Investigator, Tobacco Use Research Center; Professor of Psychiatry; Forster Family Professor in Cancer Prevention, University of Minnesota
Nora Volkow
Director, National institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) NIH
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