A new alcohol vaccine being developed in Chile by Dr. Juan Asenjo is in Stage 2 clinical trials. The vaccine builds on what happens naturally in certain people when they drink alcohol. About 20 percent of the Japanese, Chinese, and Korean population have an alcohol intolerance mutation that the...
Employing Virtual Reality to Battle Alcoholism and Addiction in PTSD-Plagued U.S. Combat Veterans
By John Lavitt
Is battling addiction with a virtual world a real possibility? Scientists and technologists in the Duke University Hospital research program in Durham, North Carolina, are battling...