Struggling with substance abuse can feel overwhelming, affecting your physical health, mental wellbeing, and relationships.

A new review explores how GLP-1 receptor agonists may blunt alcohol and drug reward signals, opening a promising but still unproven path toward repurposed treatments for addiction. Review: The role of ...

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 ...

Al-Aly is a physician and researcher at Washington University in St. Louis and chief of research at the VA Saint Louis Health Care System. At a dinner party recently, someone poured my friend a glass ...

Millions of people use methamphetamine in the United States, and overdoses involving the drug have been rising over the last decade. But while we have a veritable armory of tools to help with other ...

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 didn't use a patch. He ...

MIAMI — When Susan Akin first started injecting a coveted weight-loss drug early this year, the chaos in her brain quieted. The relentless cravings subsided — only they’d never been for food. The ...

GLP-1 drugs like Ozempic, Wegovy, and Zepbound are prescribed for weight loss, diabetes, and blood-sugar management. But as more people use them, patients are reporting a decrease in cravings for ...