Addiction Medications Melt The Extra Pounds

Maryam Ayres Author: Maryam Ayres Time for reading: ~1 minutes Last Updated: August 08, 2022
Addiction Medications Melt The Extra Pounds

The combination of medications used to treat drug and nicotine addiction can also help with weight loss in obese patients ...

U.S. researchers have found that a combination of drugs used to treat drug and nicotine addiction can also help reduce weight in obese patients, according to the BBC.

 

The results of research conducted by Frank Greenway and his colleagues at the Pennington Biomedical Research Center in the US state of Louisiana were published in The Lancet .

 

The study involved 1,742 obese patients, divided into three groups. All volunteers underwent a weight loss program that included a low-calorie diet and a set of exercises. In addition to the weight reduction program, which was common to all, the volunteers in the first group received 32 mg daily. combination of naltrexone and bupropion.

 


Naltrexone is a drug that blocks opioid receptors and is used to treat acute poisoning and drug overdoses, as well as to treat alcoholism. The antidepressant bupropion is a dopamine reuptake inhibitor and a nicotinic receptor antagonist that has been used successfully in people who want to give up citations.

 

The participants from the second group took 16 mg. of the drugs, and those of the third received a placebo.


After the end of the program, it became clear that the volunteers who received the combination of the two drugs lost an average of 5-6 kilograms. The reduction of excess fat depended on the dose of medication taken.
Participants in the placebo group managed to lose only 1.3% of their excess weight.

 

Frank Greenway notes that participants in a similar study, who followed a stricter diet and trained harder, lost up to 10 percent of their weight with medication.

 

The drug caused a slight increase in blood pressure, which returned to normal over time. Other possible side effects, such as fear attacks, insomnia or suicidal thoughts, have not been reported, but further research is pending before the drug reaches the market.

 

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