Michelle Udden had become accustomed to drinking every single night. “If I’m being honest, it was borderline becoming a habit,” says Udden, 51 who lives in New Hampshire, US and works for a fintech company within higher education. “I wasn’t getting drunk every day, but I was enjoying two to three glasses of wine each night, and definitely more on the weekend. I had not gone a week without drinking for at least the past 10 years.”

But with just a single shot of semaglutide – a medication that is marketed either as Wegovy for weight loss or Ozempic for type 2 diabetes – this all changed. “It was immediate,” says Udden. “I took my first shot on a Sunday night, immediately experienced appetite suppression and didn’t have any desire to drink. At the end of that week, I poured a glass of bourbon and couldn’t finish it.”

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