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Popular weight-loss and diabetes medications show promise for curbing smoking, study suggests

July 29, 2024 | CNN, By Deidre McPhillips

Could Ozempic curb your cigarettes craving? A new study suggests semaglutide may help people quit smoking. Could Ozempic curb your cigarettes craving? A new study suggests semaglutide may help people quit smoking. Could Ozempic curb your cigarettes cravin

July 29, 2024 | Yahoo News, By Natalie Rahhal

Could this van help people quit fentanyl?

July 21, 2024 | The New York Times, By Sharon Otterman

Policy Puzzle: Lawmakers are on a quest to break down barriers that keep most people with substance use disorder from getting the treatment they need

July 18, 2024 | POLITICO Future Pulse Newsletter, By Carmen Paun, Daniel Payne, Ruth Reader, Erin Schumaker and Toni Odejimi

Lack of institutional support a top reason why doctors hesitate to treat addiction

July 17, 2024 | MedPage Today, By Michael DePeau-Wilson

Everyone deserves addiction treatment that works – including those in jail

July 9, 2024 | STAT, By Nora Volkow and Tisha Wiley

Survey: Most Americans do not know PCPs can prescribe opioid use disorder treatment

July 5, 2024 | Healio, By Andrew Rhoades

Most Americans don’t know that family doctors can prescribe anti-opioid meds

July 2, 2024 | HealthDay, By Carole Tanzer Miller

Another study suggests GLP-1 meds could ease alcoholism

July 2, 2024 | HealthDay, By Dennis Thompson

Few know primary care offers opioid use disorder meds: Study

June 28, 2024 | Becker’s Behavioral Health, By Rylee Wilson

Too Often, Overdose Survivors Miss Out on Vital Treatments: Study

June 19, 2024 | HealthDay, By Dennis Thompson

Few Medicare patients get opioid treatment after overdose

June 18, 2024 | Axios, By Maya Goldman

Community intervention did not lower opioid deaths like researchers hoped, federal study shows

June 17, 2024 | Scripps News, By Taylor O’Bier

Ambitious federal study failed to curb opioid deaths, NIH announces

June 16, 2024 | STAT News, By Lev Facher

Drugs stolen from hospitals remains a stubborn problem. AI is seen as a solution.

June 12, 2024 | POLITICO Pro, By Gregory Svirnovskiy

Case Western Reserve researchers find link between diet drugs and reduced alcohol use disorder

June 11, 2024 | WKYC.com (Cleveland, OH), By Monica Robins

Drug treatment that insists on abstinence? Federal agencies are just saying no

May 31, 2024 | STAT, By Lev Facher

Wegovy linked to lower risk of alcohol use disorder in real-world study

May 29, 2024 | STAT, By Elaine Chen

Americans have demonized drugs for decades. Now we’re doing them every day

May 29, 2024 | The Guardian, By Jon Semley

DON’T BELIEVE THE HYPE – A top NIH official warned against putting too much stock in psychedelic medicine as a mental health treatment

May 24, 2024 | POLITICO Pulse, By Chelsea Cirruzzo and Ben Leonard

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