TED Radio Hour: New ideas about addiction. An illustration showing a person's head, filled with illustrations of various items that could be addictive, such as alcohol, pills, social media, smoking, etc.

GLP-1s could be a breakthrough in addiction treatment. But is medicine alone enough to treat such a complicated disease? This hour, TED speakers explore modern science and old wisdom on addiction. 

Guests include journalist and physician Dr. Dhruv Khullar, author and behavioral coach Eric Zimmer, and journalist Nayeema Raza.

This episode was produced by Katie Monteleone, Avery Keatley, Rachel Faulkner White, and Lucy Little. It was edited by Katie Monteleone, Sanaz Meshkinpour, and Manoush Zomorodi.

Our production staff at NPR also includes Matthew Cloutier, James Delahoussaye, Harsha Nahata and Fiona Geiran. Our executive producer is Irene Noguchi. Our audio engineer was Robert Rodriguez.