Promising new vaccine offers hope of breaking cocaine addiction
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The vaccine is designed to help produce anti-cocaine antibodies in the body of a person who is chemically dependent on the substance.

Scientists in Brazil are developing the first vaccine that could help break cocaine addiction::The vaccine is designed to help produce anti-cocaine antibodies in the body of a person who is chemically dependent on the substance.

  • pete_the_cat@lemmy.worldEnglish
    8·
    8 months ago

    Pretty neat. I had to laugh at the fact that the US is the top consumer of cocaine, not any of the Central or South American countries where it’s far cheaper. Coke is stupid expensive in most places in the US like $50-90/gram that is maybe 20% pure. At least that’s how it was up in the NYC area. I live in Miami now so I’m sure its a lot better quality down here.

    • Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      7·
      8 months ago

      20% pure is insane! Everything around is 70%+ after testing. Why do a drug so insanely impure?! If it doesn’t sheen, that’s just mean. If it’s not a chunk, it’s probably bunk. If it’s not a shiny rock, it’s blimey schlock.

      • pete_the_cat@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        8 months ago

        I’m just pulling numbers out of my ass, but it gets cut multiple times, maybe 20-30x times from the time it’s made in a place like Colombia until it gets to a small time dealer in NYC (that’s like 3,000 miles). I’ve never gotten enough for it to be worth testing, but I imagine it’s less than 50% pure from a lot of shitty dealers. They’re just trying to make the most profit.

        It’s also all about who you get it from. I bought some a few months ago from a dude my friend knew when I lived up there and it was garbage and was like $80/g. It wasn’t washed well or had a bunch of adulterants in it, it had a strong smell and burned like hell, it made our noses bleed. Another friend who has good connects always gets good stuff, some of the best blow I’ve had (I’m not a conesseur, it’s too damn expensive, but I do it when the opportunity presents itself) and other people who have done the same stuff he gets agree.

        • Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
          1·
          8 months ago

          Ugh that’s awful. I feel very fortuitous to have randomly found a person with ludicrously good stuff. I have had just weird burning foul smelling powder before and I hated it. I’ll get around to acetone washing it one day.

          All of the other stuff I’ve tried is 150-200 per ball, and it arrives as a glistening hard slab instead of powder. It’s almost oiley, and tough to separate without using a heated surface. It smells like petrol (and sometimes bananas, I’m guessing that’s how it arrives here!) It feels like nothing when insufflated and a standard line is way too much for me hahaha

            • Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
              2·
              8 months ago

              I wish I could share. We haven’t done it in yeeeears, and randomly we discovered someone we’re close to is… I’ll just say, “in the game more than we knew.”

              I had always received it in little chunks/powder before, and it took a lot to feel much. I’m guessing it was stepped on a lot. Burned and such.

              This stuff? It’s one big shiny slab that’s like… oily? Waxy almost? I heat up a mirror before putting it down so the particulates don’t stick to each other. All of my tests are off the charts for it (I have a full reagent kit and a purity kit.) Absolutely wild. None of it burns at all. The best stuff smells like bananas—you can tell it was smuggled somewhere with a banana shipment!