Some patients taking Ozempic or Wegovy report they’ve lost interest in drinking, are put off by the smell and taste of alcohol, or experience more severe hangover symptoms.
Novo Nordisk has not done studies to specifically assess the safety and efficacy of Ozempic or Wegovy in patients who drink alcohol, the company added.Christian Hendershot, an associate professor at the Bowles Center for Alcohol Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, is leading aThe desire for alcohol appears to be blunted while taking the medication based on comments patients make, but it’s all anecdotal data so far.
“It’s a very unique situation because the extent of the anecdotal data has really outpaced any clinical data that we have available right now,” Hendershot tells TODAY.com. Almost 30 million teens and adults in the U.S. had alcohol use disorder — the inability to stop or control drinking — in the past year, according to theThe theories about why semaglutide might lessen the desire to drink include that it might reduce a person’s appetite not only for food but other things they like to consume, or diminish their pleasure in various activities, Hendershot says.
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