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The blockbuster GLP-1 drugs that have reshaped the treatment of diabetes and obesity may help prevent multiple substance use disorders — and reduce the tragic outcomes they cause, a large new study ...

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A large study analyzing the health records of more than 600,000 patients in the United States found that people taking GLP-1 medications showed lower rates of substance use disorders, a discovery that ...