At 17, he started his long journey through addiction treatment units. Now 22, he has been treated numerous times in the ...

Evidence continues to mount suggesting that GLP-1 drugs like Ozempic and Wegovy may help people cut back on cigarettes, ...

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Aiming to address the connections between addiction and mental health disorders, the Partnership for a Drug-Free New Jersey recently hosted a webinar to discuss the best ways to treat both together.

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

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

I had the opportunity to sit in a Symposium at the recent American Society of Addiction Medicine (ASAM) Medical Scientific Conference moderated by members of the work group that is creating the ...

Prescription weight loss drugs have been lauded as the miracle drug for treating diabetes and obesity, but new research suggests that these drugs, known as glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) ...

As promised, I'm devoting this post to a conversation I had recently with Chevese Turner, the founder and CEO of the Binge Eating Disorder Association (BEDA). Chevese contacted me after I posted on so ...