According to a British magazine, US scientists announced the development of a vaccine against alcoholism nature medicine.
Such a vaccine will revolutionize the fight against alcohol addiction, according to staff at the Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center and School of Medicine.
People suffering from alcoholism experience a serious lack of dopamine, a hormone of joy, in their body. To compensate for this deficit, the drinker is constantly forced to increase his dose of alcohol. A study conducted in primates showed that a single injection of a gene drug into the body of monkeys led to a long-term restoration of dopamine levels in the brain.
Scientists expressed the opinion that the restoration of the level of the hormone of joy in the body should reduce alcohol consumption and prevent continued drinking after abstinence.
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