Brief Discussion of the Moral and Legal Issues of the Immunizations for Addictions

The moral and legal issues of the Immunization against addiction are centered on the ideology that there is a probable cause of producing another addiction when replacing an addictive agent with another. However, the moral aspects would be in favor of this form of drug therapy because it would benefit society by offering an alternative for the individual.  For example, Dawn MacKeen states in Immunized Against Addiction, that immunizations will develop a blocker against cocaine, which happens to be a popular substance of abuse, that would stop cocaine from entering into the bloodstream before it reaches the brain.   On the other hand, this may violate the ethics of legalism.  The code of law would suggest that drug addiction couldn’t diminish with another, possibly addictive, drug. The drive to alter your state of mind and changes in the body will become part of an addict’s human biology. Therefore, replacing a substance with another substance would have a causation of another addiction.  MacKeen also states that a vaccine, such as Methadone that is used to heroine addiction, is effective, but highly addictive. Therefore, if anti-drugs proved any form of effectiveness, it has the opportune of triggering another desire of addiction (Mackeen).

This form of pharmacological modalities in substance abuse treatment is used to remove to the harmful impact of will power.  Anyone has the potential of creating a lifestyle within an addiction, due to an individual’s normal dopamine transporter.  However, when a life fully organized around their addiction, they lose the will to produce a healthy and positive lifestyle. So when they stop their addiction, they have to find another way of reformatting their lives.

Drug therapy promotes the option of an alternative lifestyle. However, it is the individual’s choice to actually attend their meetings and apply their discussions and suggestions to their daily lives. Once showing the desire for change, a drug therapist will help produce a stronger willpower against the addictive agent.

Works Cited

Mackeen, Dawn. "Immunized Against Addiction." Saloncom RSS. N.p., 26 Apr. 2000. Web. 27 Oct. 2013.