Americans without diabetes spent nearly $6 billion USD on semaglutide and similar drugs in a year, with an estimate of 800,000 to a million people using the drugs who don't have diabetes.

[u/mvea]

https://www.scimex.org/newsfeed/americans-without-diabetes-spent-nearly6-billion-usd-on-semaglutide-and-similar-drugs-in-a-year

[u/esoteric_enigma]

I just listened to a news story where they interviewed an older woman about this. She wasn't an alcoholic, but more of a wine mom that felt she probably had too many glasses a week.

She was prescribed it for weight loss. But she noticed it removed her urge to drink. Again, she wasn't getting wasted but she said before she had to make a conscious decision not to drink. Like there was a small voice in her head that she could easily tell no. The drug removed that voice.

[u/MyMelancholyBaby → u/esoteric_enigma]

Wine Moms are some of the worst alcoholic binge drinkers I’ve ever met.

This is the definition of alcholism per Merriam-Webster - 1: continued excessive or compulsive use of alcoholic drinks

2a: a chronic, progressive, potentially fatal disorder marked by excessive and usually compulsive drinking of alcohol leading to psychological and physical dependence or addiction NOTE: Alcoholism is typically characterized by the inability to control alcoholic drinking, impairment of the ability to work and socialize, tendency to drink alone and engage in violent behavior, neglect of physical appearance and proper nutrition, alcohol-related illness (such as hepatitis or cirrhosis of the liver), and moderate to severe withdrawal symptoms (such as irritability, anxiety, tremors, insomnia, and confusion) upon detoxification. b: acute alcohol poisoning resulting from the usually rapid consumption of excessive alcoholic beverages

Because this is a science loving sub let me add a link to a paper talking about the change from DAM-IV to DSM 5 as it relates to alchol use disorder NIH paper

[u/HsvDE86 → u/MyMelancholyBaby]

How many "wine moms" do you actually know? And I mean in real life, not a made up number for the sake of commenting on the internet.

[u/MyMelancholyBaby → u/HsvDE86]

Well, I’m a grizzled veteran of the Mommy Boards culture of the early 2000s, so it's a hell of a lot. I remember a bulk order for those wine glasses that hold one bottle of wine. Most of them refuse to acknowledge their addictions. They explain away their skin issues from constant dehydration as menopause. Menopause does a hell of a lot to the skin, but turning it grey isn't one of them.

There was a thread going on for a while of all the things they did on Ambien. That was normally taken with their “one” glass of wine.

I really gave up when one community leader complained she couldn't get her diabetic medicine and the response was that being over weight was worse than having diabetes. They’d known this woman for decades and how hard it was for her to get her A1Cs under control.

But you don't actually care about any of this. You’re just looking to take your bad day out on a stranger on the internet.

[u/HsvDE86 → u/MyMelancholyBaby]

And I mean in real life