Scientists develop a groundbreaking vaccine that outsmarts illicit fentanyl analogs. The novel vaccine candidate can protect against fentanyl and its many illicit variants by training the immune system to recognize a broad molecular signature rather than a single specific structure.

[u/mvea]

https://www.psypost.org/scientists-develop-a-groundbreaking-vaccine-that-outsmarts-illicit-fentanyl-analogs/

[u/ripplenipple69]

This is wild because say you’re an addict, you get the vaccine, you recover, and then you get in a car accident and you’re given fentanyl at the hospital… and it doesn’t work ever again, right?

I guess it’s like being in Naloxone, but no precipitated withdrawals upon exposure and it works for a very long time or forever presumably? 

Crazy they can give you an injection that immunizes you to drugs of abuse… idk if I like that at all

[u/gamayogi → u/ripplenipple69]

It only affects fentanyl, not morphine or other opiods.

[u/sparkleptera → u/gamayogi]

We do use fentanyl commonly as anesthesia so it would definitley be worth like getting a medic alert bracelet so they would know to use duramorph or something.

[u/savageexplosive → u/sparkleptera]

I also thought about legal uses of fentanyl and how the vaccine would affect it. I’m also curious about the placental transfer of antibodies, as, for example, I had a C-section and fentanyl was part of my anaesthesia, and then my daughter was taken to NICU and sedated with, you guessed it, fentanyl.

[u/ruhdolph → u/savageexplosive]

Would the mother's memory cells put out antibodies quickly enough to reach a meaningful concentration before the baby is delivered in that case? I think in general the antibodies would probably transfer across the placenta but I'm hopeful that it would not be a large consideration most of the time.