A vaccine designed to fight opioid addiction has been developed.
Introduced as a fentanyl vaccine, it was created by a team of researchers at the University of Houston (UH) after years of research.
While still in clinical stages, the new vaccine is being touted by UH as a “game changer” for the world’s opioid crisis.
“We believe these findings could have a significant impact on a very serious problem plaguing society for years—opioid misuse,” said researcher Colin Haile in a Nov. 14 UH article announcing the vaccine.
A study on the vaccine’s development was recently published in Pharmaceutics journal….