Re:Fentanyl Vaccine Breakthrough – Potential “Game Changer” ...
by lilboiluvr69 on Sunday November 20, 2022 @01:15PM
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While I agree with the sentiment behind your post, especially regarding reexamining our society, I think you're coming off as a little overly cynical.
This vaccine seems to be a promising tool to preventing people in treatment (or people who come across fentanyl by accident) from overdosing. In principle at least, that seems like a positive thing for me. It's not a silver bullet, but what is? Addiction is a hard problem...
Re:Fentanyl Vaccine Breakthrough – Potential “Game Changer” ...
by mariuolo on Sunday November 20, 2022 @02:50PM
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> The psychological dependency on drugs should be treated
Current addiction treatments tend to approach the problem from multiple directions, but in the end it has to be a decision from the affected person.
If this vaccine actually works it can give them a leg up while they explore the underlying psychological problems that led them to substance addiction in the first place.
The psychological dependency on drugs should be treated, but this is much harder problem tightly coupled with larger societal problems. I would love to read research on differences in drug problems in countries with less societal stress and more happiness vs more stress and less happiness.
In the end fentanyl is simply a painkiller, people choose to get high to run away from their life problems. In the mind of patient, the risk of getting OD and becoming drug addict is a better decision, rather than facing grim reality of their daily life and future prospects.