A U.S. doctor is working on creating a vaccine to combat cocaine addiction.
Ron Crystal, a New York-based doctor at Weill Cornell Medicine, first got the idea for this treatment when he passed by a Newsweek magazine that had “addiction vaccine” printed on the cover.
“Suddenly I got this idea that if we hooked an addictive molecule, like cocaine, to a cold virus, or at least the parts of a cold virus, we could trick the immune system into thinking it was a cold virus and would develop immunity against cocaine,” Dr. Crystal told CTV’s Your Morning…