Addiction drug reverses obesity in rats

Possible. However, one must remember that rats are substantially smarter than fat people and need to be bred to get obese. They are likely too smart to defeat the drug.

People on the other hand are not so smart. Fat people defeat clear and convincing evidence they are fat. Parents of fat children deny they are child abusers. Students sit in classes and do not learn.

"An epilepsy drug being tested for use in treating addiction can help obese rats shed weight, U.S. government researchers said on Wednesday.

Their findings point not only to an easy treatment for obesity, but show it is similar to drug addiction, they said.

Even rats bred to be obese lost up to 19 percent of their weight and normal rats lost 12 to 20 percent of their weight after 40 days of injections of the drug, called vigabatrin or GVG, the team at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory found...

'A fairly significant proportion of subjects who are obese suffer from something called binge eating disorders. They binge-eat based on cues. They see a cake, they smell a hamburger and they crave and they start to eat. One of the great things about this drug is it stops this,' Dewey added."

I bet it will not work. People will find other cues as they do after bariatric surgery.

Under any circumstance, it is still better not to take drugs since many of their untoward effects are unknowable at the time they enter the stream of commerce.