Opioid vaccine blocks the high

It’s 100X more potent than morphine and tiny doses (about the size of four grains of salt) are enough to kill an adult. Fentanyl is an extremely powerful synthetic painkiller driving the opioid crisis in many parts of the world. Opioid Use Disorder (or addiction of this highly addictive class of drugs) is a frustratingly difficult-to-treat condition–about 80% of people trying to quit will relapse. Scientists from the University of Houston have come up with a somewhat unconventional approach to managing OUD: a vaccine that stops fentanyl from entering the brain, thereby blocking the “high”. <a href="https://medium.com/the-reading-frame/opioid-vaccine-blocks-the-high-63947f073006">Read More</a>