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The Weight-Loss Drug Gold Rush Has a Dangerous Prescription Problem
Eating disorder specialists say they’re seeing an influx of patients who’ve relapsed after getting shots not meant for them.
AJ Jasper should never have been prescribed a weight-loss drug.
For the last two years, the 38-year-old social worker had been in his longest stretch of recovery from anorexia. That was until the constant chatter touting drugs like Ozempic as get-quick-skinny shots became impossible to ignore.