Ozempic: The Powerful Weight-Loss Drug Selling Out Across the Country
It’s effective. But it’s also controversial.
5 min readApr 10, 2023
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…