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11/10/2025

GLP-1 weight loss medications help you drink less alcohol. Period. Learn more from Dr. Paul at Moderation MD —> like and follow for cutting edge addiction recovery content ❤️

Are you a professional who has allowed alcohol to prevent you from being at the top of your game?

Is your alcohol use affecting not only your work life but maybe even your relationships and home life as well?

If you don’t want to completely stop drinking, but you want to change your relationship with alcohol to feel better, perform better at work, improve your home life, and be healthier – MAT, or “medication assisted treatment’ to reduce alcohol use can help improve your life.

With the use of a combo of FDA-approved medications, most people reduce alcohol use almost subconsciously, without the need to depend on large amounts of “will power”.

You don’t have to go it alone. Medication can reduce cravings and make cutting back less stressful and much more easily manageable.

Schedule a consultation with Dr. Paul Kolodzik, one of the nation’s leading specialists on medication assisted alcohol use reduction: https://calendly.com/info-sbam/new-patient-assessment

10/13/2025

10/13/2025

Many people taking GLP-1 medications find that they’ve suddenly released their desires for food, alcohol, to***co, shopping, and more—how Buddhists have been contemplating this exact transition for centuries. But if renunciation of desire is the key to enlightenment, Shayla Love wrote in 2024, “why does the medication version of Nirvana seem relatively lackluster?” https://theatln.tc/JnMZ8w3I

Scientists are still determining how people respond psychologically to GLP-1 drugs. While many express elation at the effects of weight loss, others report feeling uninterested in activities they once enjoyed. If you’re suddenly stripped of strong feelings of wanting, “you have to reestablish what your behavioral drivers should be,” one neuroscientist told Love.

This mirrored what Love heard from Sister True Vow, a Buddhist nun at a New York monastery. Buddhism recommends contemplating your cravings over a period of years to loosen your grip on them; but GLP-1 drugs “do it in a chemical way, without the psychology of us coming along with it,” Sister True Vow said. The jarring feeling of abruptly losing your cravings “can also be an opportunity to uncover the roots of our desire in order to eventually let them go in a more deliberate way, Sister True Vow said. This doesn’t mean people have to forgo enjoyment of the present moment—in fact, Buddhism encourages such pleasures.”

The Buddha’s first sermon also described the Middle Way, in which enlightenment is approached not by breaking completely free from desire, but by gaining awareness of how and why you want things. After many months on the drugs, some GLP-1 users appear to be finding their own Middle Way. “I have had to learn more about what desire is, how it works,” one user told Love.

Modern American life is accused of overloading our dopamine system, such that some influencers and psychologists have endorsed “dopamine fasting.” “Desire, in other words, is a monster to be tamed,” Love continued. “Yet people’s emotional responses to GLP-1 drugs reveal that our relationship with wanting is more complex. If an overattachment to every craving can bring suffering, a total renunciation of them can be unsatisfying too.”

🎨: Matteo Giuseppe Pani. Source: Getty.