The federal government’s push to make Medicaid funding more flexible for drug addiction treatment in the last nine years has not stemmed the tide of nonfatal opioid overdoses, an Oregon Health & ...

It's even bigger than opioids," said Leggio, referring to the addiction crisis that began with pain pills and morphed into people taking illicit fentanyl. The finding in the study is not the first ...

The study examined about 228,000 people in Sweden who had alcohol use disorder and Type 2 diabetes. The people who were taking drugs like semaglutide were less likely to be hospitalized… ...

GLP-1 drugs — the class of medication that includes semaglutide and other popular drugs like tirzepatide — have shown potential for treating addiction. In the new study, Lähteenvuo and his ...

In a study of around 228,000 people in Sweden who had alcohol use disorder, researchers found that people who were taking a GLP-1 drug like semaglutide were less likely to be hospitalized for ...