The findings, published in the American Journal of Psychiatry, were the result of a small clinical trial led by researchers at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus.
Interest in GLP-1s for addiction has grown in the past decade, as some people prescribed them for diabetes or weight loss noticed they were drinking less alcohol or smoking less.
Jitu Patwari claims BJP govt's policies have turned Madhya Pradesh, which was once perceived as the land of prosperity, into a state drowned in intoxication.
Health experts are now looking at whether semaglutide can also curb alcohol cravings among addicts. A look at how this GLP-1 category drug functions in humans.
In people with liver inflammation or mild scarring, even within seven days of giving up alcohol, there are noticeable reductions in liver fat, inflammation and scarring.
20 years ago, Shah Rukh Khan-starrer Devdas renewed the old toxic Indian problem of looking at alcoholism through the lens of romantic loss, and not for the problem that it is.
The relatively new term 'grey-area drinking' describes people who consume more than a moderate amount of alcohol but don’t meet the criteria for dependence.
In a seminal work, former military officers Lt. Gen. D.S. Hooda & Lt. Col. Pavithran Rajan put forth a framework to approach cognitive warfare, called Socio-Technical-Cognitive Battlespace.
India, China and Russia share more contradictions than congruence. Each has a different worldview, as also a different adversary. The rude fact is that BRICS is the most irrelevant of all such groupings.
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