Category: pain control

No. Scientists cannot block addiction now. But you wouldn't know it from this release put out by the University of Adelaide:

Scientists can now block heroin, morphine addicition

In a major breakthrough, an international team of scientists has proven that addiction to morphine and heroin can be blocked, while at the same time increasing pain relief.

If I were addicted to heroin, I guess I'd toddle off to Australia to get my addiction blocked now. 

Further along in the release, the researchers from Adelaide and the University of Colorado say that clincial trials "may be possible within the next 18 months." The release does not note that according to...