Mexico patents vaccine against heroin

• May 4, 2024

Mexico he managed to patent the first vaccine against the use of heroin , whose objective will be to combat and prevent addictions in the country, according to the Health Secretary (Ssa)

The Dependency holder , Solomon Chertorivski , noted that addictions they are an attack on Health , as well as wellness physical and mental health of human beings, and an obstacle that prevents children and young people from becoming healthy adults.

For this reason, the official highlighted the momentum of the Actions that promote the culture of prevention, as does the National Network of Technological Transfer for the Attention of Addictions (RENADIC)

RENADIC is a technological platform that links 400 sites throughout Mexico, and was installed with an investment of more than 17 million dollars from the Mérida Initiative. In addition, it will be an instrument that helps rebuild the social fabric through prevention, by providing information to parents, instructors and teachers, which will detect young people who are at risk of falling addictions .

Know the effects of heroin on the body

It is a drug opiate made from morphine, a natural substance that is extracted from the acorn of the poppy. It usually appears as a white or brown powder, or as a sticky black substance known as "black tar."

According to National Institute on Drugs Abuse (NIDA), this narcotic can be injected, inhaled or smoked; methods that generate addiction and serious health problems.

When the heroin enter to brain, it becomes morphine and adheres to opioid receptors, which are located in the areas involved in the perception of pain and of gratification; as well as in the brain stem, which controls autonomous processes essential for life as the breathing , the blood pressure and the excitement . Frequently, overdose of heroin implies the suppression of breathing .

After an intravenous injection of heroin , the consumer feels a surge of euphoria, accompanied by dry mouth , a warm redness of the skin , heaviness in the extremities and mental confusion.

In addition, the abuse of drug is associated with the abortion spontaneous, diseases As the HIV AIDS , hepatitis , the occlusion of the veins, infection of the endocardium and heart valves, abscesses and pneumonia .