{"id":240825,"date":"2026-07-14T12:18:34","date_gmt":"2026-07-14T17:18:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/07\/weight-loss-drugs-like-ozempic-could-work-for-addiction-too-and-we-finally-know-how"},"modified":"2026-07-14T12:18:34","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T17:18:34","slug":"weight-loss-drugs-like-ozempic-could-work-for-addiction-too-and-we-finally-know-how","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/07\/weight-loss-drugs-like-ozempic-could-work-for-addiction-too-and-we-finally-know-how","title":{"rendered":"Weight-loss drugs like Ozempic could work for addiction too \u2014 and we finally know how"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/weight-loss-drugs-like-ozempic-could-work-for-addiction-too-and-we-finally-know-how.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>GLP-1 drugs show promise for more than weight loss. They also cut substance abuse and are changing how we think about the brain\u2019s reward system.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GLP-1 drugs show promise for more than weight loss. They also cut substance abuse and are changing how we think about the brain\u2019s reward system.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-240825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240825","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=240825"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240825\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}