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Ozempic and different GLP-1 medication have had a significant affect of their brief time in the marketplace—presently, one in eight People say that they’ve been on GLP-1 medication. As tens of thousands and thousands of individuals take these medicines, anecdotal proof has emerged that they’ve a optimistic impact on alcohol abuse and drug dependancy. Researchers are beginning to run trials of the medication for these functions, and a few speculate that GLP-1 medication might even have an effect on dependancy behaviors similar to playing and on-line procuring. The doctor and New Yorker medical correspondent Dhruv Khullar spoke with scientists and sufferers. “Over the course of my reporting,” he tells David Remnick, “I turned increasingly bullish on the concept these are literally going to be actually essential molecules for the remedy of dependancy.”
Khullar’s “Can Ozempic Remedy Habit?” was revealed on February ninth.
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