{"id":710164,"date":"2026-07-25T07:30:19","date_gmt":"2026-07-25T07:30:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/710164\/"},"modified":"2026-07-25T07:30:19","modified_gmt":"2026-07-25T07:30:19","slug":"rethinking-addiction-in-the-age-of-ozempic-ted-radio-hour-npr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/710164\/","title":{"rendered":"Rethinking addiction in the age of Ozempic : TED Radio Hour : NPR"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/1784964619_57_.jpeg\" data-template=\"https:\/\/npr.brightspotcdn.com\/dims3\/default\/strip\/false\/crop\/1920x1080+0+0\/resize\/{width}\/quality\/{quality}\/format\/{format}\/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F54%2F2a%2F157922fd40ef8ec23582e3ce3aea%2F15567dfc-659c-43fa-a36f-b2f9ea8c0d57.jpg\" class=\"img\" alt=\"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.\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/p>\n<p>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.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Guests include journalist and physician Dr. Dhruv Khullar, author and behavioral coach Eric Zimmer, and journalist Nayeema Raza.<\/p>\n<p>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. <\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"GLP-1s could be a breakthrough in addiction treatment. But is medicine alone enough to treat such a complicated&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":710165,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[102,6591,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-710164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-medication","tag-health","tag-medication","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/710164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=710164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/710164\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/710165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=710164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=710164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=710164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}