Vaccine vs cocaine is created in Mexico

• April 26, 2024

The cocaine is a drug stimulating the nervous system highly addictive; increases the concentration of dopamine (chemical substance of the brain), which generates an increase in pleasure . The effects it produces on the human body is increased energy, decreased fatigue and promotes mental acuity. However, the consumption of this substance increases the risk of suffering psychological or physiological damages.

According to National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), among the effects caused by cocaine they find each other:

1. Loss of sense of smell
2. Nasal bleeds
3. Problems swallowing
4. Hoarseness
5. Chronic nasal discharge
6. Gangrene intestinal
7. Irritability
8. Anxiety
9. Paranoia
10. Cardiovascular or cerebrovascular diseases

To reduce the effects and help combat the addiction of the drug, the health secretary, Solomon Chertorivski Woldenberg informed that National Institute of Psychiatry develops a substance that would block the effect of cocaine at brain , what could be considered a "vaccine "against this one.

The official said that in a period of five to 10 years the doses, created by Mexican scientists, could be ready.

Chertorivski Woldenberg detailed that "vaccine "would help to inhibit the effects of cocaine and, therefore, its need, so that investments will be maintained to investigate the issue of addiction to the different drug .

He added that people with addictions they present a disease that can be cared for and prevented. He pointed out that of 36 million deaths per year due to these circumstances, two thirds of them were preventable.

Meanwhile, the governor of Querétaro , José Calzada Rovirosa , was pronounced to promote governments that emphasize the humanization of politics, to have a healthier society and aware of the risks faced by young people in particular.

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