I don’t drink anymore. I don’t smoke anymore.” He might have shrugged it off, but reports accumulated in his clinic and ...

The effect was seen across a wide variety of addictive and habit-forming substances, including cocaine, opioids, alcohol, ...

GLP-1 medications may quiet the brain signals behind addiction, reducing substance use disorders and overdose risk across ...

(The Conversation) – A patient of mine, a veteran who had tried to quit smoking for over a decade, told me that after he started a GLP-1 drug for his diabetes, he lost interest in cigarettes. He ...

Drugs originally designed to treat diabetes and obesity are reshaping medicine in unforeseen ways. Their impact on public health is really unprecedented in modern times, perhaps only upstaged by ...

A large epidemiological study of more than 600,000 veterans with diabetes suggests GLP-1 weight-loss medications may reduce ...

A study of 600,000+ veterans found GLP-1 drugs like Ozempic reduced substance-related deaths by 50% across alcohol, opioids, cocaine, nicotine, and cannabis — making them the first medication class to ...

A large new study suggests they may drastically reduce the risk substance use disorders and drug-related deaths.

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People struggling with many addictions, ranging from opioids to gambling, are reporting similar experiences in clinics, on social media and around dinner tables.