"Dr. Klein realized that the medication was working while eating a roast beef sandwich from Jimmy John's. Ordinarily, he would devour his meal. But this time, I ate half the sandwich and a couple of the chips, and I was done, he said. It just felt like my body knew when to stop eating."
"On Thursday, the journal Addiction published a study that examined the medical records of half a million people with opioid use disorder and found that those who were taking GLP-1 drugs, for any reason, had a 40 percent lower overdose risk compared to people not on these drugs."
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