That's an interesting remark, considering this is most famous drug on the face of the Earth, and only has one brand name worldwide (in a different dosage it's called Wegovy, and when it's released as a pill it will be called Rybelsus). Its generic name is Semaglutide.
Wouldn’t the most famous drug be: aspirin, heroin, cocaine, paracetamol, or maybe viagra?
I don’t know from your comment what it is, and it was unhelpful. Not really in the HN spirit. For future readers, it seems to be an anti-diabetic drug or artificial hormone originating in the 70s. More educated comments than mine are very welcome.
This is the first time I'm hearing about it. It seems here it's only prescribed to type 2 diabetes partients and doctors are strictly prohibited from prescribing it for weight loss.
Yes that might be what you read online but in reality there are 5 people at my work out of a team of ~35 on the medication purely for weight loss. Only one of these people was majorly obese, and the other 4 were nominally overweight (though probably technically obese).
Roughly 15 million Americans are on Ozempic, and about half of them do not use it at all for Diabetes treatment.
