Alcohol use disorder treatment used to mean total abstinence. For many people, it still does. But that's no longer the only path.
Yale addiction specialist Stephanie O'Malley explains why care has become more individualized, and why she believes that shift could help more people
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- Our Three to Read summer series continues with anthropologist Eduardo Fernandez-Duque, who studies the biological and evolutionary roots of pair bonding, monogamy, and fatherhood in primates. Two of his picks examine modern masculinity and fatherhood through a scientific lens.
- Scientists have long known that GLP-1 drugs like Ozempic work in the brain, but not exactly how. A new Yale study finds that instead of simply suppressing hunger neurons, as long assumed, these drugs actually activate them, triggering metabolic changes that help sustain fat
- Our Three to Read summer series picks up with astrophysicist Meg Urry, who recommends an insider account of a tech giant's lost idealism and a quick read she couldn't put down. She also includes a history of the women who shaped the field of astronomy — especially fitting for a
- A white coat now. A lifetime of caring for others ahead. Every year, Yale School of Medicine marks the start of a new class's medical journey with the White Coat Ceremony, when students slip on their clinician’s coats for the first time, surrounded by the people who got them

