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Fifty-two samples of street cocaine seized in the state of Rio de Janeiro, from May to April , were evaluated according to their purity, presence of inorganic and sugar diluents and concentration of pharmacologically active adulterants. Cocaine contents, as well as the adulterants caffeine, lidocaine and phenacetin, were evaluated by gas chromatography coupled with mass spectrometry. The samples were screened by Raman spectroscopy for the presence of inorganic diluents and carbohydrates. Freebase cocaine samples were majorly composed of pharmacological active compounds adulterants , unlike cocaine hydrochloride samples, which were majorly composed of inorganic compounds diluents. It could be observed, by Raman Spectroscopy associated to multivariate analysis, similarities on cocaine hydrochloride composition according to certain criminal gangs. Keywords: cocaine hydrochloride; freebase cocaine; cutting agents; chemical profiling; criminal gangs. Cocaine is one of the major alkaloid compounds found in leaves of plants from the Erythroxylum gender family Erythroxylaceae , mostly from the varieties Erythroxylum coca var. Cocaine is addictive and acts to inhibit the monoamine oxidase MAO enzyme, which is responsible for the degradation of monoamines, thereby affecting the reuptake of serotonin. It also stimulates the release of noradrenalin and dopamine, blocks sodium channels on peripheral nerves and is a potent anesthetic. Cocaine consumption also increases the strength and speed of cardiovascular contraction and provokes symptoms of euphoria and excitement. These properties make it one of the most commercialized drugs on the illicit market worldwide. Cocaine extraction is performed by acid-base extraction through immersion of coca leaves in acidic or alkaline solutions or by maceration with organic solvents. The refining process consists of oxidation, precipitation and successive dilutions for bleaching and purity increase. During these steps, many adulterants and diluents can be added in order to increase product volume and consequently the profit. Furthermore, street cocaine is frequently adulterated by local merchants, so that the materials seized on streets are generally less pure than the materials seized in the international airports. Cocaine is more commonly consumed in two different forms: freebase cocaine crack and cocaine hydrochloride cocaine HCl , though it can also be found in other forms, such as coca paste and merla. Crack is freebase cocaine, frequently found as little rocks, formed by the heating of cocaine hydrochloride with sodium bicarbonate in water. Street cocaine powder cocaine hydrochloride is water soluble, being usually snorted or injected. Since , Brazilian Federal Police, with aid from the United Nations Organization UNO , implemented the PeQui Project, which aims to analyze the chemical profile of drugs seized in Brazil, seeking origin characteristics and correlations among the seized samples. Many works have been published as a result of the PeQui Project, which could help to elucidate the characteristics of drugs seized in many states and identify the trends on the illicit market in Brazil. Justice , 54, Many of the studies published in the last years were concerning cocaine purity and the presence of pharmacological active adulterants. Bernardo et al. Drug Policy , 14, The presence of lidocaine was verified in 68 of the samples that were positive for caffeine. Diluents were identified by qualitative tests, in which carbonates and bicarbonates were identified in Maldaner et al. Cocaine commercialized in Brazil is usually originated from Bolivia, Peru or Colombia. In turn, cocaine also leaves Brazil for international trafficking, mainly to Africa, Europe and Asia. The degree of adulteration may vary according to geographical origin or availability of clandestine labs. O; Lordeiro, R. A; Augusti, R. Justice , 53, These findings could be related to the proximity of the Amazonas State with Colombia, one of the main cocaine producers. The presence of cocaine adulterants may vary according to place and time. Lidocaine and sugars were the two main cutting agents used in the s, while in the beginning of the s lidocaine was not detected in cocaine commercialized in Spain anymore. By the end of the s, lidocaine, caffeine and phenacetin were the main adulterants in cocaine commercialized in Italy. Diltiazem, hydroxyzine and levamisole were first reported from to in the United States and Europe. Nowadays, the main adulterants found in Europe are phenacetin, levamisole, caffeine, diltiazem, hydroxyzine and lidocaine, similar to what is found in Brazil. These spatiotemporal differences might be related to availability and price of the adulterants in certain areas. Souza et al. Justice , 56, The presence of phenacetin was observed only in the samples seized in , showing that this is a more recently used cutting agent. A higher degree of adulteration was observed in samples seized in the metropolitan region, suggesting a traffic route directed from the countryside to the capital. Raman spectroscopy and mass spectrometry are classified as category A most reliable , while spot tests are classified as category C least reliable. In this work, gas chromatography coupled with mass spectrometry was used for identification and quantification of pharmacological constituents, while Raman spectroscopy was used for identification of inorganic and sugar constituents. Screening the constituents on street cocaine is important for public health, as many of the substances added to cocaine can be harmful to users according to its dose and may interact both with cocaine and other drugs as well. Lidocaine, for instance, significantly potentiates cocaine-induced toxicity, increasing the convulsant potency of cocaine when consumed simultaneously. Caffeine also has synergic effects with cocaine, increasing the intensity and duration of cocaine symptoms, toxicity, convulsion rates and aggravation of cardiovascular problems. This study aims to evaluate the purity, the content of pharmacological active adulterants and the presence of inorganic and sugar diluents of fifty-two samples of cocaine in their two most consumed forms cocaine hydrochloride and freebase cocaine , seized in three different regions of Rio de Janeiro State City of Rio de Janeiro, Baixada Fluminense and Costa Verde and classified according to the labels of the three main criminal gangs found on the state. Thirty-three samples were seized in the city of Rio de Janeiro, five samples were seized in Baixada Fluminense, eleven samples were seized in Costa Verde and three samples were seized from unknown areas. The samples were kept in the dark and stored at room temperature until analysis. All standards were of analytical grade: caffeine, lidocaine and phenacetin standards were acquired from Sigma-Aldrich Chemie St. The spot tests Scott test, Wagner test and silver nitrate test , as well as the esterification tests, were performed on each sample in order to verify the presence of cocaine. The tests were also performed for each standard to indicate possible false-positive results. The samples and the standards were analyzed according to the method described by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crimes Manual, 19 19 United Nations Office on Drugs and Crimes, Rapid testing methods of drugs of abuse: manual for use by national law enforcement and narcotics laboratory personnel, New York, USA, The formation of a blue precipitate indicates the presence of cocaine either salt or freebase. A brown precipitate indicates the presence of salt cocaine. The formation of a white or yellow precipitate indicates the presence of salt cocaine. Esterification test was performed in water bath, using a porcelain crucible for reacting a small quantity of the sample with five drops of concentrated sulfuric acid and the same volume of ethanol. The characteristic odor of ethyl benzoate, observed after around ten minutes of heat, is indicative of the presence of cocaine. The identification and quantification of adulterants present in each sample was carried out by the method proposed by Lapachinske et al. An aliquot of 5 mg of each sample was dissolved in methanol, followed by ultrasonic bath for 10 minutes and centrifugation for 3 minutes at rpm. An aliquot of the upper layer was collected and injected in a gas chromatographer coupled with mass spectrometry. Chromatographic separation was achieved on a VF-5ms fused-silica capillary column 30 m x 0. The carrier gas was helium and was used at a flow rate of 1. Each sample and the analytical reagents sodium carbonate, aluminum sulphate, sodium bicarbonate calcium carbonate, starch, sucrose, D-glucose, lactose and mannitol were individually inserted in a vial and directly analyzed by Raman spectroscopy. The analysis was performed using a FT Raman Bruker MultiRAM with laser source in nm near infrared , germanium detector cooled with liquid nitrogen, potency adjusted to mW, spectral range from to cm -1 , resolution of 4 cm -1 , performing 32 scans for cocaine samples and 16 scans for the standards. The samples were processed in ACD Labs software Toronto, Canada in order to compare them with the spectra obtained for each standard and to identify possible diluents. Due to its several processing steps, botanical characteristics and adulteration possibilities, cocaine composition can vary considerably according to its origin or manufacturer. Multivariate analysis plays an important role in characterizing the cocaine profile and establishes possible similarities among cocaine samples. All the samples analyzed in this work showed positive results on all presumptive tests. As expected, both cocaine powder and freebase cocaine showed positive results on Scott test, while only cocaine powder showed positive results on silver nitrate test, as shown in Figure 1. That is due to the chlorine atom present on cocaine hydrochloride, which combines to the silver ion to form silver chloride precipitate. Wagner test showed a deeper brown color for cocaine powder samples. Figure 1 Spot tests Scott test, silver nitrate test and Wagner test for three cocaine HCl samples and for three freebase cocaine samples. Blank: 1 for Wagner test, 2 for silver nitrate test and 3 for Scott test. Caffeine and phenacetin showed negative results in all spot tests. Lidocaine showed negative results on Wagner test, silver nitrate test and esterification test, however, it showed a positive result on the Scott test. Sodium carbonate showed a deep violet color and sodium bicarbonate showed a light violet color on Scott test and false-positive results on silver nitrate test. Sodium carbonate did not show as deep a yellow color as sodium bicarbonate did due to its low solubility in water. Starch showed a deep blue color in Wagner test due to interactions of the amylase helix with iodine ions Figure 2. Figure 2 Spot tests Scott test, silver nitrate test and Wagner test for the standards. The false positive result of lidocaine on the Scott test might be related to its structural similarities to cocaine. Both compounds have a tertiary amine that may interact with the cobalt ion from thiocyanate complex. This complex was prepared and its X-ray structure was recently described by Tabrizi and co-authors. The formation of a colored complex with Co II is not observed for caffeine or phenacetin. A; Mariotti, K. Also, the exceeding amount of sample used on the Scott test may lead to false-positive results. It was described by Tsumura and co-authors 22 22 Tsumura, Y. Therefore, the maximum sample weight should be up to 1 mg for a more precise result. All samples showed positive results for the esterification test. This is an important test to distinguish possible false-positive results, as common adulterants such as caffeine, lidocaine and phenacetin do not hydrolyze to ethyl benzoate. Though some presumptive tests can show false-positive results, they were able to detect the presence of cocaine in all the analyzed samples on this work minimum cocaine content of 1. Retention times obtained by the conditions used in this work, as well as the main peaks observed for each adulterant, are listed in Table 1. Freebase cocaine samples showed superior purity, with an average cocaine content of The average contents of cocaine and each pharmacological constituent, as well as their range, is described in Table 2. Figure 3 Histograms showing cocaine hydrochloride A and freebase cocaine B purity range. The percentage of the pharmacological compounds observed for each sample is shown in Figure 4. Figure 4 Cocaine and adulterant contents for each sample. Lapachinske et al. All samples analyzed by Lapachinske et al. That may explain their higher purity compared to the samples analyzed in this work, as street cocaine is often successively adulterated and diluted in order to increase profits. Researches indicate a high pharmacological interaction between cocaine and caffeine. When these compounds are associated, cocaine effects increase in intensity and duration. That may explain the presence of caffeine in most of the analyzed samples. Studies in rats showed that the combination of cocaine with caffeine also promotes an increase in toxicity, seizures and death rate. These samples did not show caffeine in composition, showed less phenacetin content The loadings graph showed that cocaine and phenacetin contents were the most important variables for the grouping of freebase cocaine samples, while caffeine and lidocaine contents were responsible the grouping of cocaine hydrochloride samples. At right, loadings graph showing the influence of each variable. Peak positions of the main Raman bands of the standards, found in this work, and their tentative vibrational assignments, based on literature data, are listed in Table 3. Aluminum sulphate, sodium carbonate, starch, lactose and mannitol were present in 4. It was only detected the presence of sodium bicarbonate in one of the eight freebase cocaine samples and it was not observed the presence of the other diluents in any other sample. Sucrose and D-glucose were not present in any cocaine hydrochloride or freebase cocaine sample. Calcium carbonate and sodium bicarbonate were mainly found associated in cocaine hydrochloride, corresponding to Samples showing calcium carbonate and sodium bicarbonate in a non-associated form corresponded to Figure 6 Frequency of each diluent in cocaine hydrochloride samples. Calcium carbonate and sodium bicarbonate are easily found in Brazilian local markets and are usually added to cocaine after it comes to Brazil, by local drug dealers. Calcium carbonate is a white, insoluble salt, used as a calcium supplement against osteoporosis, as a soil acidity regulator and in the manufacturing of mortar and cement. It is also commonly found in markets as chalk. Sodium bicarbonate is a white and soluble salt, easily found in drugstores due to its antacid property. As expected, it could be observed by PCA a clear discrimination of the cocaine hydrochloride samples and the freebase cocaine samples Figure 7 , indicating considerable differences on the profiles of cocaine HCl and freebase cocaine. Figure 7 Scores graph using intensity results obtained by Raman. No grouping tendencies were observed according to geographical origin samples seized in the city of Rio de Janeiro, Baixada Fluminense and Costa Verde , which may be related to the proximity of this areas. The three areas share borders and the samples were seized at approximately km 2 of maximum distance. It was not possible to verify grouping tendency for samples from the criminal gang C, possibly due to the low number of samples analyzed from this criminal gang. At right, HCA showing the grouping of freebase cocaine samples from criminal gang B. Besides the fact that drugs from different criminal gangs can come from different providers, the isolation of areas dominated by different criminal gangs can result in particular practices in drug processing and adulteration. Spot tests are useful for detecting the presence of cocaine in seized samples, even at low concentrations of cocaine from 1. Though lidocaine showed false-positive results on the Scott test, the association with other spot tests silver nitrate and Wagner tests , especially with esterification test, allowed for unambiguous identification of the presence of cocaine in the analyzed samples. Freebase cocaine showed considerably higher purity compared to cocaine hydrochloride, as well as different adulteration profile. Caffeine was the most frequent adulterant in cocaine hydrochloride samples, while phenacetin was found in all freebase cocaine samples. Open menu Brazil. Open menu. Text EN Text English. Presumptive tests The spot tests Scott test, Wagner test and silver nitrate test , as well as the esterification tests, were performed on each sample in order to verify the presence of cocaine. Gas chromatography The identification and quantification of adulterants present in each sample was carried out by the method proposed by Lapachinske et al. Raman spectroscopy Each sample and the analytical reagents sodium carbonate, aluminum sulphate, sodium bicarbonate calcium carbonate, starch, sucrose, D-glucose, lactose and mannitol were individually inserted in a vial and directly analyzed by Raman spectroscopy. Statistical analysis Due to its several processing steps, botanical characteristics and adulteration possibilities, cocaine composition can vary considerably according to its origin or manufacturer. Table 1 Retention times RT and main peaks observed for the standards. Table 2 Average content, standard deviation S. Table 3 Peak positions of the main Raman bands of the standards and their tentative vibrational assignments. Bruni, A. Lapachinske, S. Budavari, S. Yesinowski, J. Chem , 67 , Maldaner, A. Zacca, J. Justice , 54 , Botelho, E. Bernardo, N. Drug Policy , 14 , Justice , 53 , Justice , 56 , Gauvin, D. Derlet, R. Tabrizi, L. Chem , , Tsumura, Y. Marcelo, M. Schwarz, A. Penido, C. Forensic Sci. Boutasta, A. Raman Spectrosc. Roberts, S. Publication Dates Publication in this collection 27 May Date of issue This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Luiza D. Valeria C. Frances R. Bruno D. Marco Edilson F. Rosane N. Figures 8 Tables 3. Diluents Wavelength cm -1 Assignments 28 28 Penido, C. Starch Stay informed of issues for this journal through your RSS reader. PDF English. Google Google Scholar.

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Official websites use. Share sensitive information only on official, secure websites. While the worldwide prevalence of cocaine use remains significant, medications, or small molecule approaches, to treat drug addictions have met with limited success. Anti-addiction vaccines, on the other hand, have demonstrated great potential for treating drug abuse using a distinctly different mechanism of eliciting an antibody response that blocks the pharmacological effects of drugs. We provide a review of vaccine-based approaches to treating stimulant addictions; specifically and cocaine addictions. This selective review article focuses on the one cocaine vaccine that has been into clinical trials and presents new data related to pre-clinical development of a methamphetamine MA vaccine. We also review the mechanism of action for vaccine induced antibodies to abused drugs, which involves kinetic slowing of brain entry as well as simple blocking properties. We present pre-clinical innovations for MA vaccines including hapten design, linkage to carrier proteins and new adjuvants beyond alum. We provide some new information on hapten structures and linkers and variations in protein carriers. We consider a carrier, outer membrance polysaccharide coat protein OMPC , that provides some self-adjuvant through lipopolysaccharide components and provide new results with a monophosopholipid adjuvant for the more standard carrier proteins with cocaine and MA. The review then covers the clinical trials with the cocaine vaccine TA-CD. The clinical prospects for advances in this field over the next few years include a multi-site cocaine vaccine clinical trial to be reported in and phase 1 clinical trials of a MA vaccine in To date, while there are no FDA approved pharmacotherapies for treating cocaine dependence, of those that are in use, there are multiple limitations. Of these limitations, the most significantly problematic include cost, availability, medication compliance, dependence, diversion of some to illicit use and relapse to addiction after discontinuing their use. Here, immunotherapies using either passive monoclonal antibodies or active vaccines have distinctly different mechanisms and therapeutic utility from small molecule approaches to treatment and have shown distinct promise with demonstrated potential to help the patient achieve and sustain abstinence and have few of the limitations associated with anti-addiction medications. Immunotherapy for addictions also has been steadily growing as an area for new ideas and technologies, although human studies of these therapies have been limited to active vaccines against nicotine and cocaine, and no monoclonals for passive immunization have been tested in humans. Therefore this review will focus on vaccines rather than monoclonals, and focus on the human vaccine issues for cocaine, since a cocaine vaccine has progressed to late phase 2 clinical trials in humans. This review also will cover the pre-clinical vaccine design issues for methamphetamine MA , because many technical innovations are being deployed for MA vaccines that will be highly relevant to second generation cocaine vaccines. Monoclonal antibodies to MA are also rapidly approaching testing in humans as they have been developed over the past 15 years for passive immunization in humans where the delays of several weeks that are needed to raise antibody responses to the vaccines are unrealistic, such as in reversal of MA overdoses in the emergency setting. However, the translation of monoclonals into practical pharmacotherapies for humans has been hampered by relatively high production costs and by requiring parenteral delivery that is impractical for substance abuse care in all but emergency settings \[2\]. Drugs of abuse lead to reward and reinforcement by rapidly entering the brain and attaching to neuronal receptors on very specific brain pathways and antibodies prevent those drugs from accessing these brain pathways. Specifically both cocaine and MA bind to the three monoamine transporters dopamine, norepinephrine and serotonin preventing these transporters from removing these neurotransmitters from the synapse. This removal is the main mechanism for inactivation of neurotransmission from these monoamine releasing neurons. The action of MA furthermore reverses the direction of the transporters such that these monoamines are actively pumped out from the cytoplasm of the neuron into the synapse. The specific brain pathway involved with reward is dopaminergic and connects the ventral tegmental area to the nucleus accumbens. The small molecular size and lipophilicity of these abused drugs allows them to traverse the blood—brain barrier rapidly, and to diffuse quickly to their transporter binding sites and markedly prolong dopamine activity at the nucleus accumbens \[3\]. Antibodies capture the abused drug before it can cross the blood—brain barrier, thereby preventing activation of the brain's reinforcement pathways, but also have an additional pharmacokinetic effect of buffering against rapid transit of abused drugs into the brain \[2 , 4\]. Thus the rapid accumulation from the bolus dose is prevented. A critical human observation to illustrate this kinetic point is that smoked cocaine administration sparked an epidemic of abuse when smoked crack cocaine replaced marketing of cocaine powder for intranasal administration due to its very rapid delivery of cocaine to the brain within seconds, which is highly reinforcing \[5\]. Moreover, oral cocaine requires considerably larger doses to be as reinforcing as the intravenous route of administration \[6\]. This need for an increased dose in part reflects that oral cocaine reaches the brain relatively slowly, and although high blood and brain concentrations can be attained, much higher concentrations from this route are needed to produce euphoria or other reinforcing effects \[7 — 9\]. Antibodies in the circulation have a similar kinetic way of slowing drug entry into the brain and reducing the reinforcing effects of the drug. The fundamental concept in creating anti-drug antibodies is to create a new macromolecular compound, which the body will recognize as a foreign antigen that requires an immune response. Drugs of abuse by themselves are far too small to elicit such immune responses from the antibody generating B and T white blood cells, so their presentation to the immune processes must be changed through a conjugate vaccine. A conjugate vaccine chemically links the abused drug to a large immunogenic protein such as inactivated tetanus or cholera toxin \[10\]. Both of these proteins are widely used vaccines, and the concept of linking them to small molecules called haptens in order to produce an antibody response was pioneered in the s as a treatment for digitalis toxicity and as an anti-morphine vaccine \[11 — 13\]. Immunological memory is created, whereby re-exposure to the agent i. The effectiveness of the vaccine is then measured by its ability to create antibodies with specificity and high binding affinity for the drug of abuse and the robustness of the antibody response, i. An important complication in clinical studies, which are described below, is that some cocaine abusers spontaneously develop low affinity anti-cocaine antibodies before vaccination, and these low affinity antibodies are a marker for very poor antibody responses to immunization with these vaccines. Mechanism of action of a vaccine against cocaine addiction. In the absence of the vaccine, cocaine is readily absorbed at the blood—brain barrier and thereby enters the brain. As shown in the top part of this figure, the vaccine interacts with dendritic blood cells to produce antibodies from B-cells that are secreted into the blood stream. If a vaccine is administered, it stimulates the production of antibodies against cocaine. Subsequently, if cocaine is taken, the antibodies bind to the drug and sequester it in the blood circulation. This antibody—drug binding prevents the cocaine from rapidly leaving the blood vessels and entering the brain, thereby reducing the drug's euphoric effects. We have learned many important properties of this immunological approach to treatment from in vivo studies of monoclonals. MA antibodies also protect against the increases in blood pressure, heart rate, and locomotor activation horizontal activity induced by a high dose of MA \[20 , 21\]. Finally, a recent variation on monoclonal usage has been to introduce a viral vector with the DNA for the monoclonal into animals and for potential use in humans in order to produce a humanized monoclonal or Fab fragment for a more extended period of time than a single infusion of a monoclonal would allow \[22\]. However, this gene therapy faces practical hurdles for implementation in essentially healthy humans, as most cocaine and MA abusers do not have the immediately life-threatening illnesses for which the FDA has permitted gene therapy \[23\]. Vaccines do not face these same practical issues of cost, parenteral administration or use of viral vectors in application to humans, but vaccines have several other challenges involving the carrier protein, the hapten and its linkage to the carrier protein and adjuvant selection, which can include using self-adjuvanting constructs as the carrier. Because both cocaine and MA have low molecular weights, they are too small to elicit an immune response on their own. However, they can become immunogenic by conjugation to an appropriate carrier protein. Periodic booster doses with the complete immunogen, not simply using MA or cocaine alone, are needed to maintain satisfactory antibody titres \[14 , 24\]. The conjugation or linking of the drug to the carrier protein has generally been accomplished using 4—6 atom spacers such as succinic acid \[25 — 28\]. Future studies may need to address these questions systematically for optimal vaccine design, but another practical issue has been the difficulty in determining the actual antibody affinity as well as concentration. The usual ELISA means for determining affinity and concentration can be inaccurate, and equilibrium dialysis has been used to address some of these limitations \[29\]. Our understanding of the binding affinity and kinetics between cocaine or MA and the antibodies produced has been explored only in buffer systems which, although physiologically relevant in pH and salt concentrations, lack many serum components present in the blood and may not represent the actual binding behaviour inside the body. Since the antibody response to cocaine and to the carrier protein cholera toxin subunit B CTB did not closely correlate in many subjects \[18\] , comparison of the binding properties to these different targets may provide insight into the immune response to this and other conjugate vaccines. In developing vaccines for cocaine both in preclinical and clinical phases only ELISA and equilibrium dialysis have been explored, resulting in some potential limitations regarding the exact quantitative and qualitative requirements for anti-cocaine antibodies. The study of binding kinetics is essential to understand fully the molecular interactions between anti-drug antibodies and the drug, which drive the clinical benefit of drug—conjugate vaccines \[29\]. A simplified in vitro model does not reflect the complicated interactions in live rodents and humans based on the adsorption, distribution, metabolism and elimination properties of these drugs, particularly with cocaine which is metabolized by enzymes such as butyrylcholinesterase, pseudocholinesterase and liver carboxylesterases \[30 , 31\]. Nevertheless, we have tried to identify haptens and linkages that might have optimal structural stability and thereby produce more limited variation and a higher antibody quantity and affinity in its polyclonal response. As an example, in constructing a cocaine hapten for linkage to our carrier protein we have found recently that an aliphatic linkage to nor-cocaine has resulted in slow hydrolysis of the hapten, therefore making that hapten construct not desirable for cocaine vaccines. To test these vaccine constructs, a primary vaccination and a booster vaccination at week 3 were done as a typical experimental design. In general, significant amounts of antibody were detectable by 4 weeks, peaking at 6—8 weeks and declining after 8—12 weeks. Carriers such as KLH, TT, and OMPC stimulate substantially higher antibody levels than do others we have tested, and the antibodies persist longer with these carriers as well, but particularly OMPC which had anti-MA antibodies at good levels up to 26 weeks after the initial immunization. Since OMPC contains additional adjuvant properties based on lipopolysaccharide content \[35\] , we therefore explored the adjuvant monophospho-lipid MPL , which has some characteristics similar to OMPC's adjuvant capability. The differences from CTB were striking. While it is difficult to compare anti-cocaine to anti-MA IgG levels directly, the relative strength of response is clear. The self-adjuvanting OMPC was superior to the other carriers for cocaine, particularly the carrier used in the current human vaccine. Thus, other protein carriers are clearly worthy of investigation, and other adjuvants besides alum may provide important advantages in the peak IgG response produced and the duration of that high IgG response. We also have identified haptens for MA that might produce a specific antibody binding pocket conformation rather than several different conformations in its polyclonal response. Because MA has three flexible bonds in its linkage to the carrier protein, this could produce several different conformations. We found that a rigid structure could produce a greater total antibody response. The linker now had a carboxylic acid end group to attach to the lysine residues on the carrier proteins. This linkage structure is also unique compared with other linker structures, because other linkers are attached to the phenyl ring, which is at the opposite end of MA. This unique hapten-linker structure has led to some challenges in developing standard curves for determining antibody titres and affinities using an ELISA, but the antibody levels have been sufficient to influence behavioural measures of place preference, as independent measures for the potency of our antibody responses. These behavioural results showed that vaccinated mice conditioned with MA had reduced conditioned approach behaviours and decreased conditioned activity levels compared with control groups indicating attenuated MA place conditioning, and separate studies showed reduced and delayed MA locomotor effects \[36\]. The immunological blockade lasted 2 to 4 months following the final vaccination. The only adverse effects were a few subjects with mild tachycardia, elevated temperature or hypertension with no serious adverse effects \[16\]. The antibodies remained elevated for 3 months after the last vaccination, and no safety concerns arose. Non-responding patients often had IgM antibodies to cocaine before vaccination. This poor prognostic marker could represent a response to adduct formation by the drug to native proteins in vivo \[37\]. Since exposure to cocaine alone will not provoke an increase in antibodies due to lack of cross linking the antibodies expressed on the B cell surface, boosting with this conjugate vaccine is required about every 3 months to maintain high antibody levels. An ongoing multi-site, phase IIb clinical trial has followed the success of this first cocaine vaccine clinical trial of TA-CD \[15\]. This 4 month, double-blind, randomized, placebo-controlled, multicentre study includes treatment-seeking, cocaine-dependent individuals receiving five vaccinations. This phase IIb clinical test should be completed in June with top line results available by Based on the success of this vaccine in the earlier clinical trials, this cocaine vaccine may be one of the first anti-addiction vaccines. The full clinical registration path for FDA approval of this vaccine will require another multisite phase 3 study replication, if this current study can demonstrate a significantly greater proportion of subjects becoming cocaine-abstinent for at least 3 weeks on the vaccine compared with the placebo. However, it does not appear that a full vaccinated subjects will be required for a safety assessment, since the CTB carrier has an outstanding safety record, and the clinical trials for this nor-cocaine haptenated conjugate vaccine have been remarkably free of adverse events. The behavioural challenges for any successful vaccination programme start with the need to have 2 to 3 months where the patient can be brought to a treatment site for the series of vaccinations. While continued drug abuse during the 3 months of vaccination does not interfere with the vaccine's ability to stimulate the required antibody production, the patient needs to get these vaccinations at appropriate times over the 3 months e. Thus, counselling or other treatment efforts will be critical to insure compliance with the schedule of vaccinations. Such interventions could vary from residential substance abuse care to outpatient contingency management, in which patients are paid to come for the vaccinations with an escalating pay schedule for each vaccination obtained. In addition to the clinical trials being conducted on vaccines for cocaine, preclinical development of second generation vaccines for MA and cocaine are ongoing. Future vaccine trials will use more potent adjuvants than alum and include more effective carriers such as OMPC that have adjuvant properties due to their lipopolysaccaride content. Several outstanding adjuvants are commercially available, and nicotine vaccines are the most likely to first benefit from these new adjuvants due to the already ongoing interest in these vaccines of major pharmaceutical companies such as Novartis and GSK which control these novel adjuvants. Another likely focus will be on using booster injections with different adjuvants from the original vaccine that might only use alum. Shifting adjuvants during a series of vaccinations could prolong antibody durations and perhaps strengthen the development of high affinity in the polyclonal antibodies. Some work is also expected outside the United States, in China in particular, for commercializing these vaccines. Chinese companies have the capital needed, as well as the required government support, for moving these vaccines rapidly into the public health sectors where they are most needed. This material is the result of work supported with resources and the use of facilities at the Michael E. 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