Could the blockbuster GLP-1 meds like Wegovy and Ozempic have a role to play in helping people cut down on problem drinking? A new study suggests so.
use disorder," said lead researcher Rong Xu. She's a professor of biomedical informatics at the Case Western's School of Medicine.
And the Case Western team have already shown that semaglutide can have other unexpected health benefits., and in March, we demonstrated that semaglutide is also associated with a reduction in both new diagnoses and recurrence of cannabis use disorder," Xu noted in a university news release.
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