October 19, 2024 — New observational research in Addiction suggests that the rates of drug and alcohol use might be lower by as much as half when people are taking GLP-1s. Specifically, half as many people with alcohol use disorder had episodes of intoxication if they were taking a GLP-1. Among people with opioid use disorder, the rate of […]
February 24, 2024 — This sounds like a godsend. “Weight loss jabs could be a more effective and cheaper treatment for drug addiction than rehab, a study suggests.” So says the Telegraph of London. The “weight loss jabs” they’re talking about are liraglutide 3 mg daily injections, also known by the brand name of Saxenda. Sad to say, they […]
January 16, 2018 — American lives have grown shorter for the second year in a row. When CDC issued these statistics in December, all the talk was about drug overdoses. That’s certainly a factor. But a new study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences points to growing obesity rates for peeling away nearly a year […]
