EL PASO, Texas, June 8 -- The University of Texas at El Paso issued the following news release:
EL PASO, Texas (June 8, 2026) - A new study led by researchers at The University of Texas at El Paso found that use of weight loss drugs like Ozempic and other GLP-1s is associated with a lower risk of developing alcohol, opioid, nicotine and cocaine use disorders.
The study, led by UTEP School of Pharmacy researchers Tadesse Abegaz, Ph.D., and Gabriel Frietze, Ph.D., was published in Frontiers in Psychiatry. It looked at more than 142,000 cases of patients with type 2 diabetes or obesity, of which around 20,000 were prescribed GLP-1 medications. They then examined whether GLP-1 users were more or less likely to develop substance use disorders ...