Addiction injection: the mission to immunize drug users against dependency

Wired.co.uk

Arranged neatly on a granite worktop in a windowless underground laboratory at the Scripps Institute in San Diego, California, are 16 small syringes filled with pure cocaine. Stacked up against the back wall are four rows of steel cages, each housing an albino mouse. The mice are being given a shot that contains 15mg/kg of the drug -- enough to get a human high. But although they're all injected with the liquid, only some of the mice demonstrate signs of restlessness. Over the next half-hour, eight of the red-eyed rodents scurry back and forth wildly, nibbling at their tails and pawing at the metal mesh of the cage.

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