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The study results were published in Archives of General Psychiatry (Archives of General Psychiatry.) The scientists found that 38% of participants failed to reach adequate levels of antibodies to stop experiencing the feeling of euphoria that produces the drug.

The vaccine works by “wrapping” to cocaine so that it has no effects on the brain, heart or other organ, “” this is the first successful controlled trial for a vaccine against cocaine, say scientists.

According to previous studies conducted with animals and humans, high levels of anti-cocaine antibodies in the blood can prevent addicts experience that feeling.

However, the researchers stressed that the vaccine who managed the high level of antibodies, only maintained it for two months, so it would need repeat injections.

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