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Experimental vaccine diminishes fatal respiratory effects of synthetic opioids – News-Medical.net

As the opioid epidemic raged on with an even greater force during COVID-19, the Scripps Research laboratory of chemist Kim Janda, PhD, has been working on new therapeutic…

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As the opioid epidemic raged on with an even greater force during COVID-19, the Scripps Research laboratory of chemist Kim Janda, PhD, has been working on new therapeutic interventions that may be able to prevent the bulk of deaths from opioid overdose.
Janda and his team have developed experimental vaccines that have shown in rodents to blunt the deadly effects of fentanyl–which has been driving the boom in opioid deaths–as well as its even more fatal cousin, carfentanil, a growing source of…

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