Ozempic: The Powerful Weight-Loss Drug Selling Out Across the Country

It’s effective. But it’s also controversial.

E. Alderson
5 min readApr 10, 2023
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The blockbuster medicine is a once-weekly injectable that was meant primarily to help regulate blood sugar in diabetic patients. But it came with a fortuitous side effect: consistent and noticeable weight loss. For some users this rate of weight loss was 10 pounds a month…

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E. Alderson

A passion for language, technology, and the unexplored universe. I aim to marry poetry and science.