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Nature Immunology

Immune to Addiction: The Ethical Dimensions of Vaccines Against Substance Abuse

May 2012

Promising advances have been made in recent years for a unique class of immunotherapies that use vaccination to combat substance-use disorders. Although such vaccines are potentially useful for addictions, they raise a variety of ethical and social questions.

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  • Michael Young
  • Dominic Sisti, PhD
  • Jason L. Schwartz, PhD
  • Hila Rimon-Greenspan
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    Arthur Caplan, PhD

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