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...early clinical trials: Now under review, a blinded, placebo-controlled study of 114 subjects showed that compared with the placebo group, people who received the vaccine were twice as likely to reduce their cocaine use by at least 50%. The Kostens are currently seeking approval from the Food and Drug Administration to go ahead with a 300-person, six-city clinical trial that may well be the final step toward federal approval of the vaccine...
...This is a major contribution," says Dr. Peter Cohen, a Georgetown University law professor and physician who heads up the District of Columbia Medical Society's physician health committee, which works to rehabilitate drug-addicted doctors. "Addiction is a medical problem that needs to be treated as a medical problem...
What if science made a pill to protect us from addiction - keeping us from smoking cigarettes, getting fat or abusing drugs and alcohol? According to encouraging results from several lines of study, it seems that day may be closer than we thought. Researchers in labs around the world are now developing vaccines (not a pill, but an injection) to inoculate people against dangerously addictive substances such as cocaine, heroin and methamphetamine. Within "one to 10 years, and closer to one year," says Dr. Frank Vocci, director of treatment research and development at the National Institute of Drug Abuse (NIDA), scientists...
...drama, he says, because it's based in Greek tragedy about fated individuals, not Shakespearean tragedy about heroic individuals--but his show doesn't play like a tract or a thesis. It's full of memorable characters, like Omar (Michael Kenneth Williams), the principled bandit who robs from drug dealers; Detective Jimmy McNulty (Dominic West), the boozy, dogged cop trying to work cases the city won't pay for; and Bubbles (Andre Royo), the recovering junkie fighting his addiction like Sisyphus pushing a boulder of dope up a mountain...
...fine-tuned b.s. detector who, despite those qualities--or because of them--knows he's a dinosaur. Maybe the greatest hero on The Wire is Lester Freamon (Clarke Peters), an old-school detective who explains to a young colleague how tediously scouring documents to connect a politician to drug money is better than collaring gang members on the street: "A case like this, here, where you show who gets paid behind all the tragedy and the fraud, where you show how the money routes itself, how we're all, all of us, vested, all of us complicit? Baby, I could...