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Medicine's Rong Xu discusses research findings linking semaglutide to reduced alcohol use disorder and smoking

MEDIA | August 27, 2024
STORY BY: EDITORIAL STAFF

BloombergRong Xu, professor at the School of Medicine, discussed recent research that links semaglutide—the key ingredient in diabetes shot Ozempic and its sister drug Wegovy for obesity—to a reduction in both alcohol use disorder and smoking. “People like food, people like drinking or smoking or taking addictive medication,” she said. “We thought they probably share some common mechanisms.”