{"id":74072,"date":"2026-05-04T00:58:20","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T00:58:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/74072\/"},"modified":"2026-05-04T00:58:20","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T00:58:20","slug":"novo-obesity-shot-wegovy-helped-alcoholics-drink-less-in-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/74072\/","title":{"rendered":"Novo Obesity Shot Wegovy Helped Alcoholics Drink Less in Study"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody___5jDr\" data-component=\"paragraph\">Novo Nordisk A\/S\u2019s obesity shot Wegovy helped people with alcoholism reduce their drinking, in the first controlled study of patients who sought help with their addiction. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody___5jDr\" data-component=\"paragraph\">Volunteers on Wegovy reported drinking heavily for five days in a 30-day period after six months of treatment, 12 fewer days than before they started. The improvement showed in other measures of addiction, such as total alcohol consumption and bloodwork. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Novo Nordisk A\/S\u2019s obesity shot Wegovy helped people with alcoholism reduce their drinking, in the first controlled study&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":74073,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[271],"tags":[38072,26,691,730,272,13578,21306,685,39895,39909,4728,39908],"class_list":{"0":"post-74072","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-novo-nordisk","8":"tag-alcohol","9":"tag-denmark","10":"tag-drugs","11":"tag-industries","12":"tag-novo-nordisk","13":"tag-novo-nordisk-a-s-b","14":"tag-pharmaceutical","15":"tag-regulation","16":"tag-tablet","17":"tag-u-s-department-of-veterans-affairs","18":"tag-university-of-copenhagen","19":"tag-world-health-organization"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@dk\/116513597250824290","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74072","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74072"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74072\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}