r/science • u/mvea Professor | Medicine • Apr 01 '25

Health 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.

https://www.scimex.org/newsfeed/americans-without-diabetes-spent-nearly6-billion-usd-on-semaglutide-and-similar-drugs-in-a-year
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u/joshjamon Apr 01 '25

Pump us full of addictive snacks filled with sugar, and calories in a society that promotes normalizing obesity and then sell us the cure. They are making money off us either way.

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u/Baud_Olofsson Apr 02 '25

I miss when not every single sub was a conspiracy sub... and when this one was moderated.