Back from the dead: Antidote for cocaine overdose shows promise in lab tests.
Treatment would reduce immediate effects of an overdose and prevent relapses soon after as antibodies remain in system for a few weeks.
Cocaine overdoses can have a devastating impact, causing kidney failure, strokes and even death.
Now scientists are on the verge of creating an antidote that could reverse the damaging effects in accident and emergency rooms.
Scientists at The Scripps Research Institute have shown that an injectable solution can protect mice from an otherwise lethal overdose of the Class A drug.
If they can find a way to produce the solution cheaply and in large quantities they said there was no reason why it couldn't go forward for human clinical trials.
'This would be the first specific antidote for cocaine toxicity,' said study author Dr Kim Janda.
Source: Mail Online, 19/04/2012
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