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Cocaine Vaccine Shows Promise for Treating Addiction – 2
Narrator: This is NIH Health Matters. Immunization with an experimental anti-cocaine vaccine has reduced cocaine use in 38 percent of vaccinated patients in a clinical trial. Dr. Nora Volkow is the director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse.
Dr. Volkow: Those individuals that have been vaccinated, there was significant decrease in the amount of cocaine utilized, documented indeed that immunotherapy, active immunization in this case, for the treatment of cocaine addiction, is a strategy that has promise in the handling in this disorder.
Narrator: The study is the first successful, demonstration of its kind with a vaccine against an illicit drug. For details, visit www.drugabuse.gov. Health Matters is produced by the National Institutes of Health, part of the US Department of Health and Human Services.
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