Human addicts who are fighting to kick their cocaine habit can expect hope by a vaccine shown to block cocaine from entering the brains of drug-addicted mice.

For cocaine dependency there is no effective medication yet and ability by addiction medicine specialists have not been used in order to help cocaine addicts. There is a typical process of treating addicts and it is the 12-step program and behavioral therapies.

The real problem is treated by this vaccine as body's own immune system is tapped by the vaccine.

Molecular composition of cocaine is mimicked by the vaccine which is combination of a common cold virus and particles of substance.

Bodies of mice were able to stop cocaine from reaching the brain as an effective antibody immune response is mounted by mice that were given the vaccine.

Researchers are hoping that the vaccine actually work as it will be the first treatment of its kind for people who are cocaine addicts.

It is being hoped that the vaccine study that was funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse, NIDA, in the U. S. would someday lead to treatments being made for heroine and alcohol addicts also.