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Re:Ozempic drug supresses desire to smoke, drink and more by wcfields on Friday May 19, 2023 @08:45PM (#36008372)
New addictions post bariatric surgery is fairly common. Gambling for instance [1] replaces food.

[1] https://www.researchgate.net/publication/332884264_Gambling_...

Re:Ozempic drug supresses desire to smoke, drink and more by paulpauper on Friday May 19, 2023 @09:41PM (#36008654)
best to read the study before commenting on it

In the addiction literature, the development of gambling dependence after bariatric surgery is limited. Mitchel et al. reported that 2 cases presented with post-operative gambling addiction in their 3-year screening study in 201 post-op case (5). In our case, the presence of genetic background may be a risk factor for the develop-ment of gambling

2 out of 200 cases is not that common and close to baseline level

Re:Ozempic drug supresses desire to smoke, drink and more by fosk on Friday May 19, 2023 @10:16PM (#36008808)
Clinically, what causes the urge to have an addiction? Like in your statement, replacing food with gambling. I would assume that these are fundamentally two different reward systems for the brain, or maybe not?