{"id":32846,"date":"2022-10-17T18:13:53","date_gmt":"2022-10-17T22:13:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/?p=32846"},"modified":"2022-10-17T18:14:31","modified_gmt":"2022-10-17T22:14:31","slug":"wonder-drug-that-causes-massive-weight-loss-could-also-suppress-the-desire-for-alcohol-doctors-are-now-eyeing-it-for-treating-addiction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/2022\/10\/17\/wonder-drug-that-causes-massive-weight-loss-could-also-suppress-the-desire-for-alcohol-doctors-are-now-eyeing-it-for-treating-addiction.html","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Wonder&#8217; drug that causes massive weight loss could also suppress the desire for alcohol. Doctors are now eyeing it for treating addiction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Inspiring headline doused by some cold reality&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zmescience.com\/medicine\/wonder-drug-that-causes-massive-weight-loss-could-also-suppress-the-desire-for-alcohol-doctors-are-now-eyeing-it-for-treating-addiction\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/glass-g3e72e8514_1920.jpg?w=1080&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>But despite this anecdotal evidence, the only double-blind, placebo-controlled trial that investigated the effect of another GLP-1 analog in treating alcohol use disorder came to rather disappointing results. After they received a 2 mg\u00a0dose of exenatide once a week for 26 weeks, patients with alcohol use disorder did not see a significant reduction in their heavy drinking days.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zmescience.com\/medicine\/wonder-drug-that-causes-massive-weight-loss-could-also-suppress-the-desire-for-alcohol-doctors-are-now-eyeing-it-for-treating-addiction\/\">&#8216;Wonder&#8217; drug that causes massive weight loss could also suppress the desire for alcohol. Doctors are now eyeing it for treating addiction<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Inspiring headline doused by some cold reality&#8230; But despite this anecdotal evidence, the only double-blind, placebo-controlled trial that investigated the effect of another GLP-1 analog in treating alcohol use disorder came to rather disappointing results. After they received a 2 mg\u00a0dose of exenatide once a week for 26 weeks, patients with alcohol use disorder did [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":32847,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-links-to-other-places","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/glass-g3e72e8514_1920.jpg?fit=1920%2C1277&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paumAn-8xM","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32846","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32846"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32846\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32848,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32846\/revisions\/32848"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}