BACKGROUND: Roux-en-Y gastric bypass (RYGB) surgery is an effective weight loss
strategy employed to treat obesity and associated complications. Importantly, the RYGB
procedure has been reported to attenuate reward-related consummatory behaviors. The
present work examined the hypothesis that RYGB surgery attenuates ethanol intake and
reward in the context of frequent ethanol consumption. METHODS: To do this, self-report of
ethanol intake was examined in human bariatric patients (n= 6165) before and following the …