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EPISODE · May 2, 2026 · 31 MIN

Can semaglutide be used to treat alcohol use disorder?

from The Lancet in conversation with · host The Lancet Group

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. Click here to read the full article:  https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(26)00305-3/fulltext

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