> Short of a drug that provided a permanent cure for opioid addiction itself, I'm not sure what sort of solutions can be pursued by scientific/tech research, as opposed to addressing the root social causes.
People have actually been trying vaccine approaches to opioid addiction for a while, but it's tricky since opioids are small molecules which inherently don't give you a lot to work with as far as antigen presentation.
Apparently there has been some promising evidence recently though. See Derek Lowe's blog below for details.
People have actually been trying vaccine approaches to opioid addiction for a while, but it's tricky since opioids are small molecules which inherently don't give you a lot to work with as far as antigen presentation.
Apparently there has been some promising evidence recently though. See Derek Lowe's blog below for details.
http://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2017/06/26/a-h...