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Re:US administration revokes $11B in funding for addiction, ... by rayiner on Thursday March 27, 2025 @08:11PM (#43499787)
Do you know it works? I’d be curious to know your prior—do you think medical interventions for behavioral problems typically work?

We know, for example, that medical interventions to address obesity typically don’t work (without surgery). https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8427732/

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Re:US administration revokes $11B in funding for addiction, ... by xnx on Thursday March 27, 2025 @09:37PM (#43500455)
> We know, for example, that medical interventions to address obesity typically don’t work (without surgery).

This seems like a wild example to use given the runway success of GLP-1 drugs

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Re:US administration revokes $11B in funding for addiction, ... by rayiner on Thursday March 27, 2025 @10:12PM (#43500709)
Sorry, I’m old and sometimes forget GLP-1 drugs exist now. But that’s kind of my point—those drugs seem like magic because medical interventions for obesity control were so extremely ineffective until just a couple of years ago.

We don’t have anything akin to GLP-1 drugs for opiate addiction, or alcohol addiction, etc.

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Re:US administration revokes $11B in funding for addiction, ... by xnx on Thursday March 27, 2025 @10:30PM (#43500827)
> We don’t have anything akin to GLP-1 drugs for opiate addiction, or alcohol addiction, etc.

Surprisingly, there's some evidence that GLP-1 drugs may also help with drug and alcohol cravings!

https://www.niaaa.nih.gov/news-events/research-update/semagl...

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