Having gone from diabetes treatment to weight-loss miracle, GLP-1s are already blockbuster drugs. Now a new study in The Lancet shows that GLP-1s help with another common lifestyle disease: alcohol-use disorder.
It’s tempting to claim that we finally have an effective treatment for alcoholism. But in fact, we already have one. The decades-old Sinclair Method—which involves regularly taking a prescription drug before drinking to block pleasure-inducing endorphins, thus retraining the brain—is reasonably effective but seldom used.
