When considering the drugs most likely to cause former addicts to repeatedly relapse, opioids, cocaine, and methamphetamine ...

Al-Aly and his colleagues found that people starting the GLP-1 drugs had lower risks of developing addiction to multiple ...

The assumption that addiction is always harmful has gotten us nowhere toward helping kids or regulating the corporations that ...

Evidence is mounting that the wildly popular weight-loss medicines known as GLP-1s may also hold potential for treating addiction, and the field may be on the verge of obtaining desperately needed ...

A large study found that people taking GLP-1 drugs like Ozempic for diabetes were less likely to be diagnosed with substance use disorder.

(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 ...

A new study found GLP-1 drugs were associated with 50% fewer substance-related deaths, 39% fewer drug overdoses, and 26% ...

Scientists don’t yet fully understand how GLP-1 drugs like Ozempic affect the brain’s reward pathways, but there are promising signals about how they control cravings. Also in the Global Health ...