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Can Ozempic rewire the addicted brain?

Part 1 of the TED Radio Hour episode Rethinking addiction in the age of Ozempic

GLP-1s revolutionized weight-loss and diabetes treatment. Could addiction be next? Dr. Dhruv Khullar is optimistic, but he’s cautious about calling them a miracle drug for treating addiction.

About Dhruv Khullar

Dr. Dhruv Khullar is a physician and associate professor of health policy and economics at Weill Cornell Medical College. He also covers medicine, health care, and politics at The New Yorker. His academic research has been published in JAMA and The New England Journal of Medicine.

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Manoush Zomorodi is the host of TED Radio Hour. She is a journalist, podcaster and media entrepreneur, and her work reflects her passion for investigating how technology and business are transforming humanity.

Zomorodi is a co-founder of Stable Genius Productions and is the co-host and co-creator of ZigZag, the business podcast about being human. She also created, hosted, and was managing editor of the podcast Note to Self in partnership with WNYC Studios, which was named Best Tech Podcast of 2017 by The Academy of Podcasters.

Prior to her time at WNYC, Zomorodi reported and produced around the world for BBC News and Thomson Reuters, including a few years in Berlin.

She was named one of Fast Company's 100 Most Creative People in Business for 2018 and has received numerous awards for her work, including The Gracie for Best Radio Host in 2014 and 2018. Her book "Bored and Brilliant: How Spacing Out Can Unlock Your Most Creative Self" (2017, St. Martin's Press) and her TED Talk are guides to surviving information overload and the "Attention Economy."

Zomorodi received a bachelor's degree from Georgetown University in English and fine arts. She is half-Persian and half-Swiss but was born in New York City, where she lives with her family.

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