A safe, effective vaccine won’t end opioid overdose deaths. However, it could help save lives, and all resources that help protect life and safety have great meaning and value.
Vaccines designed to help protect people from opioid overdoses are currently in development.Reseach is progressing rapidly on a significant additional weapon in the battle against the ongoing opioid crisis and its ever-worsening avalanche of overdose deaths.century, the opioid epidemic has been one of the worst public health disasters affecting the United States.
Funded by the U.S. National Institutes of Health, these vaccines work by prompting the body to produce fentanyl-specific antibodies that bind the drug in the blood and prevent it from entering the brain. Thus far they have only been tested on mice, rats, and pigs, but the results indicate these vaccines have the potential to provide a safe and long-lasting preventive treatment to combat opioid overdoses in humans.Human trials of heroin and fentanyl vaccines are likely to begin in 2024.
With a pervasive problem such as a public health crisis there are no magic bullets nor quick fixes, and a safe and effective vaccine won’t end opioid overdose deaths. However, in the meantime, it could help save lives, and all actions that have the potential to protect life and safety have meaning and value.As the lines between real and fake blur, Americans increasingly chase the idea of authenticity.
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