Posted on 11/16/2022 7:43:00 AM PST by bitt
Fentanyl is 50 times stronger than heroin and 100 times stronger than morphine
A team of researchers at the University of Houston may have developed a "vaccine" blocking the ability of the dangerous synthetic opioid fentanyl to enter the brain.
The findings, published late last month in the journal Pharmaceutics, have been described as a potential game changer in addressing an epidemic that has claimed thousands of American lives.
Fentanyl is 50 times stronger than heroin and 100 times stronger than morphine. A dose of only 2 milligrams – the size of two grains of rice – could potentially be fatal.
The study’s lead author, research associate professor Colin Haile, said the vaccine is able to generate "anti-fentanyl antibodies that bind to the consumed fentanyl and prevent it from entering the brain, allowing it to be eliminated out of the body via the kidneys."
"Thus, the individual will not feel the euphoric effects and can ‘get back on the wagon’ to sobriety," he said.
He added that the anti-fentanyl antibodies were specific to that, and a fentanyl derivative did not cross-react with other opioids like morphine. This means that a person vaccinated for fentanyl could still be treated with other opioids.
Though Opioid Use Disorder (OUD) is treatable, around 80% of those dependent on opioids suffer a relapse, according to research.
Clinical studies on the vaccine did not cause adverse side effects in the immunized rats involved. The research team will manufacture clinical-grade vaccines with clinical trials in humans in the coming months.
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I would agree to ones picked naturally when ripe. We had them a lot on 2 trips to Cancun from a big fruit market. Amazing smoky flavor.
About as tasty as a bar of soap.
Hey hey whoa there mom, that’s a really sexy post:>)
Yeah, depends on the soap...
When most of the medicine consumed in the US is made by China what makes you think they couldn't dope any of the stuff we import?
I’m addicted to life.......
That stuff will kill ya!..............
I don’t get why. Must be too old.
We had a big Avocado tree..was great for climbing...but dropped leaves and Avo's all the time...and it was my job to pick the leaves up..and the mussy avocadoes up. I hated that job....And we never ate them either......Weird huh.
Well that tree was cut down..and my parents built a swimming pool.
Because you’re talking about avocados?
There were a lot of avocados from Goleta to south Orange County. Chopped down everywhere and built houses so now we import from Mexican farms being run by cartels now.
It’s my addiction and yet no one has a 12 step program for me...not even suggestions on how to titrate off those things. I’m doomed.
I must be dense I don’t get it, let’s let it go.
Other than that, go with it.
Pretty obvious you didn’t watch even 30 seconds of the vid.
You’re the one full of crap.
gasdoc too busy ?
Or at least only listened long enough to craft a bunch of strawman misrepresentations of the data presented.
I surely don't want to discourage your beliefs, however.
You’re a shill.
I get it
You’re an “ expert”
Like fauci.
But, like I said, you must believe what you believe.
How about just refuting the points I have made rather than attacking me on a personal level. That makes you look so very liberal.
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