i heard about the study by hilary hylton (a drug to end drug addiction) in my uni studies yesterday, and looked her up, and found this article. basically at first addicts can either voluntarily or be legally coerced (with lower jail time as a reward) into accepting these future "vaccines" which essentially remove all the enjoyment from a particular chemical. the scary road this leads down to, which is mentioned in the article, is the potential for widely immunising children from highs.
Read more: http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1701864,00.html#ixzz23ZXXlOFt
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 developing vaccines (not a pill, but an injection) to inoculate people against dangerously addictive substances such as cocaine, heroin and methamphetamine. Within "one to 10 years, and closer to one year," says Dr. Frank Vocci, director of treatment research and development at the National Institute of Drug Abuse (NIDA), scientists may produce a vaccine against cocaine — one of the more promising areas of research — that can potentially help millions of addicts, two million in the U.S. alone.
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Read more: http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1701864,00.html#ixzz23ZXXlOFt
