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Month: October 2026

Digital Engagement Significantly Improves GLP-1 Weight Loss, Study Shows

Patients fully engaged with a digital weight loss app achieved 30% greater weight loss in the first year using a GLP-1 drug.

GLP-1 Effects on Psilocybin Mushrooms

Scientists investigate what happens when people use GLP-1s and psilocybin mushrooms together, offering insights into the brain’s reward system.

GLP-1 Drugs for Addiction: Pros and Cons

PBS NewsHour interviews doctors who love GLP-1 drugs for addiction treatment, and Mad In America interviews psychiatrists who aren’t so sure.

Recovery: How It Actually Is

In substance abuse recovery, the goal is improvement, not perfection.

Digital Interventions for Substance Use Disorders

A decade’s worth of studies prove that digital interventions for substance use disorders really do work.

Pennsylvania: Land of Liberty and Bankruptcy

Pennsylvania is the country’s largest online gambling market, where hundreds of thousands of citizens have a gambling addiction problem.