Posted AT 11:56 PM EDT on 02/01/08
Scientists testing vaccine for cocaine users
Nothing says drug addiction more than a needle and syringe. But that's exactly what a team of U.S. researchers believes can help cocaine users kick their menacing habit.
Two Baylor College of Medicine scientists based in Houston have developed a cocaine vaccine that creates antibodies that bind to the drug and prevent it from travelling from the bloodstream to the brain.
Unable to penetrate the brain, the drug can produce no high.
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