Ozempic and similar semaglutide-based medications have been hailed as miracle drugs. Known as GLP-1 (glucagon-like peptide-1) agonists, this class of medications mimics a natural hormone the small ...
GLP-1 agonist medications such as Ozempic have been game changers in the treatment of obesity and diabetes. Recently, a new study found evidence that Ozempic may be a promising medicine for ...
Addiction, a chronic mental health condition, affects millions of Americans, and traditional treatments have often fallen short of providing lasting relief. However, a new class of medications, GLP-1 ...
The Gambling Disorder Treatment Handbook is a comprehensive guide for gambling addiction treatment. As two gambling disorder experts collaborated to promote the book, this piece of writing provides a ...
One of the dominant ways of thinking about addiction is as a disease. While there is evidence for this approach, it often ...
Addiction medicine is currently recognized as a medical specialty. However, many people, including other medical specialists, think of addiction medicine as a "fringe" specialty, treating addiction ...
The fourth step in Alcoholics Anonymous requires participants to take a “moral inventory” of the problems their substance use has caused in their lives before asking God to remove their “defects of ...
We need a new paradigm for addiction that puts psychology first and recognizes its heterogeneity. Only then will we see that ...