{"id":196860,"date":"2025-12-21T18:55:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-21T18:55:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/196860\/"},"modified":"2025-12-21T18:55:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-21T18:55:10","slug":"can-you-get-addicted-to-a-glp-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/196860\/","title":{"rendered":"Can You Get Addicted to a GLP-1?"},"content":{"rendered":"

About one in eight<\/a> American adults say they\u2019ve used a GLP-1 receptor agonist medication like Ozempic or Wegovy at some point, making this a very popular drug class. While these drugs can be used to treat type 2 diabetes, they\u2019ve really taken off for their weight loss potential\u2014this probably isn\u2019t news to you.<\/p>\n

But there seems to be a wave of people who struggle to stop using these medications once they start. Model and reality star Brooks Nader has spoken openly about what she calls her \u201caddiction\u201d to using GLP-1s. In a September 2025 episode of her show, Love Thy Nader, the 28-year-old\u2019s sisters stage an intervention over her use of GLP-1 medication and eating habits after they found her nearly unconscious in the bathtub. (Her sisters shared at the time that Nader was mostly consuming bone broth.)<\/p>\n

\u201cThe thing that I was so shocked about with the show was that I had so many people reach out to me saying, \u2018I\u2019m also addicted to GLP-1. I\u2019m ashamed to talk about it because there\u2019s such a stigma around it. It\u2019s a crutch for me,\u2019\u201d Nader later told Bustle<\/a>. But she also told the magazine that she\u2019s still taking the medication, adding, \u201cit\u2019s a crutch for me too. It\u2019s not healthy. I should get off it; I\u2019ll be honest about that.\u201d<\/p>\n

Nader recently told Us Weekly<\/a> that she\u2019s heard from many people who have had the similar experiences. \u201cI\u2019ve had moms come up to me, I\u2019ve had girls in college come up to me and have similar struggles,\u201d she said. \u201cAnd I\u2019m hoping that through using my voice, we can all band together and find a solution.\u201d<\/p>\n

Weight loss is a complicated topic that often has deep emotional undercurrents, making it understandable that some people may feel dependent on these medications after reaching their goal weight, Thea Gallagher, PsyD, clinical associate professor at NYU Langone Health and cohost of the Mind in View<\/a> podcast, tells SELF. Here\u2019s why medical professionals say people may feel hooked on these drugs, plus what a physician who prescribes these medications recommends doing once you hit your goal weight.<\/p>\n

People don\u2019t get addicted to these medications, but they can become emotionally reliant on them.<\/p>\n

This is a slightly complicated thing to explain, so bear with us for a moment here. An addiction can be physiological, which means it alters your body in a way that attempting to stop or cut down can cause a physical withdrawal, Gail Saltz, MD<\/a>, associate professor of psychiatry at the NY Presbyterian Hospital Weill-Cornell School of Medicine, tells SELF. \u201cThese are drugs with addiction potential such as heroin, cocaine, opioids, alcohol, even nicotine,\u201d she says.\u201d The sudden removal of the drug causes physical withdrawal.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"About one in eight American adults say they\u2019ve used a GLP-1 receptor agonist medication like Ozempic or Wegovy…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":196861,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[18460,12194,163,85,46,482,522,43,3477,591],"class_list":{"0":"post-196860","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-medication","8":"tag-eating-disorders","9":"tag-glp-1s","10":"tag-health","11":"tag-il","12":"tag-israel","13":"tag-medication","14":"tag-mental-health","15":"tag-news","16":"tag-obesity","17":"tag-weight-loss"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196860","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=196860"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196860\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/196861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}