Medical researchers have discovered a surprising link between semaglutide-based injectables Ozempic and Wegovy, and a reduced risk of opioid overdose death in patients with Type 2 Diabetes and opioid use disorder.
In surprising results, medical researchers have found that people who take Novo Nordisk's semaglutide-based injectables Ozempic and Wegovy seem to be strikingly less likely to die from overdosing on opioids.Led by biomedical informatics expert Rong Xu, the school's researchers looked at nearly six years of data, taken between 2017 and 2023, for over 33,000 patients who both had Type 2 Diabetes and who had been diagnosed with opioid use disorder .
The researchers found that overall, the patients who used semaglutide had a 58 percent lower chance of dying from an opioid overdose than their peers who were on other medications, which included older generations of similar drugs like Eli Lilly's dulaglutide-based drug Trulicity and even Novo's other GLP-1, the liraglutide-based Victoza.
"Not everyone receives or responds to ," Xu said in the press release. "As a result, alternative medications to help people treat opioid use disorder and prevent overdosing are crucial."
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