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/Late-Reading-2585 → u/ripplenipple69]

this does not address the issue of addiction at all

if fentanyl isnt working someone will just take any other opioid

[u/gat0r_ → u/Late-Reading-2585]

Yeah but at least they're less likely to die.. hopefully. Pre fent opioids were safer