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Newshawk: Herb Couch
Pubdate: Sat, 17 May 2014
Source: Cincinnati Enquirer (OH)
Copyright: 2014 The Cincinnati Enquirer
Contact: http://enquirer.com/editor/letters.html
Website: http://enquirer.com/today/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/86
Authors: Carrie Blackmore Smith and Terry DeMio
Bookmark: http://www.mapinc.org/heroin.htm (Heroin)
NO WAY OUT: HEROIN ADDICTS TRAPPED IN DEADLY MAZE
In his California laboratory, Kim Janda is amazed by the amount of
heroin he can give to rats without killing them.
Janda has created a vaccine that makes rodents immune to huge amounts
of the drug and reduces the animals' urge to relapse into the dark
hole of heroin addiction - a place all too familiar to a growing
number of Americans.
It is a ray of promise in the battle against opiate addiction. Drug
overdose deaths - fueled primarily by prescription painkillers and
heroin - have tripled in the United States over the last three
decades, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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MAP posted-by: Jay Bergstrom
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