Dreams say what they mean, but they don’t say it in daytime language. ~Gail Godwin
The U.S. government wants drug companies to make a vaccine for drug addiction.
Convinced of the need for new and better treatments for addiction, the government is focusing its efforts on vaccine development as a new way to treat and possibly prevent addiction to a range of addictive substances.
“It’s a perspective that is very different from what we’ve operated on in the past,” said Dr. Nora Volkow, director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse.
Volkow said the agency intends to piggyback on the frenetic investment by drug companies in vaccine development.
Volkow has to first tempt drug companies to develop the vaccines by funding expensive clinical trials.