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Can semaglutide be used to treat alcohol use disorder?

Can semaglutide be used to treat alcohol use disorder?2 May32 min

The Lancet’s Niall Boyce and Jonathan Pimm, and eBioMedicine’s Kalypso Karastergiou discuss an exciting new potential treatment for alcohol use disorder: semaglutide.

As new research is published in The Lancet, they go behind the headlines with lead author Professor Anders Fink-Jensen to ask what the study showed, and what its implications are for the future of addiction medicine.

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https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(26)00305-3/fulltext