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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...