Abstract
These days, people are trying weight‐loss drugs — some originally indicated for diabetes only — even if they don't need to lose weight, but want to lose weight. They are aware of all the possible side effects (nausea, loss of appetite, diarrhea, constipation etc.) but they still want to lose weight. Now, Ozempic is being looked at for the possible effect of reducing drinking; alcohol is high in calories, after all, and there's not much in it that's actually good for you (unlike food, which you need to survive). Now, people have found that when they take the drug to eat less and lose weight, they also lose their taste for alcohol, or at least for drinking a lot of it. Ozempic is a diabetes drug; Wegovy is a weight‐loss drug, but both contain the same active ingredient — semaglutide — which makes people feel satisfied after eating. Questions such as whetherthese drugs reduce the capacity for pleasure, a side effect of naltrexone for some patients, do not appear to be an issue. They do, however, reduce the capacity to enjoy eating, as they are intended to do.
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