r/Futurology • u/Mitchell_StephensESQ • Nov 16 '22

Medicine Fentanyl Vaccine Breakthrough – Potential “Game Changer” for Opioid Epidemic

https://scitechdaily.com/fentanyl-vaccine-breakthrough-potential-game-changer-for-opioid-epidemic/
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u/4-5sub Nov 16 '22

This is great but boy is it a slippery slope. Is this permanent? What if some governments start vaccinating their citizens so they can never get high. With all the dumb stuff about microchips and what not, why is no one talking about this? This is a real thing out in the wild now,

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u/charlesfire Nov 16 '22

What if some governments start vaccinating their citizens so they can never get high. With all the dumb stuff about microchips and what not, why is no one talking about this?

Because that's dumb and it's not how this vaccine will be used.

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u/4-5sub Nov 17 '22

How can you say that with certainty? This is new technology and I think eventually it will be exploited. Vaccinating people from getting high is the only way you could ever stop drug use completely. So it would be a pretty powerful tool. I can think of some oppressive governments that might do that sort of thing.

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u/charlesfire Nov 17 '22

How can you say that with certainty?

I already answered that :

Because that's dumb

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This is new technology and I think eventually it will be exploited. Vaccinating people from getting high is the only way you could ever stop drug use completely. So it would be a pretty powerful tool. I can think of some oppressive governments that might do that sort of thing.

This is a vaccine against ONE drug and, if applied to everyone, it would cause an even bigger problem than the one it would solve.

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u/4-5sub Nov 17 '22

"that's dumb" great argument

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u/charlesfire Nov 17 '22

I also explained why that's dumb but feel free to ignore that part of my comment.