A wildly popular diabetes and weight-loss drug may also protect people from overdosing on opioids. That’s the implication of a new study that examined health records of people with type 2 ...

Ozempic may lower the risk of opioid overdose in patients with Type 2 diabetes, a new study suggests, the latest research to find a positive connection between the diabetes drug and another ...

By and large, Americans have understood this as an explosion in opioid use, one that reflected and expressed a kind of national despair, particularly visible among the country’s left-behind places.

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Opioid overdose deaths have dropped to the lowest they have been in three years, new estimates from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention suggest, in the wake of a record surge of ...

WEDNESDAY, Sept. 25, 2024 (HealthDay News) -- In a finding that suggests Ozempic and Wegovy have powers that extend beyond ...

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Prescriptions for semaglutide, which includes Ozempic and Rybelsus, were linked to lower overdose rates among patients with type 2 diabetes who were also diagnosed with opioid use disorder ...

In a finding that suggests Ozempic and Wegovy have powers that extend beyond weight loss, a new study finds the medications might also lower people's risk of opioid overdose. People with Type 2 ...