As usual, chasing profit rather than curing disease or improving lives
this post was submitted on 24 Jun 2024
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This cures obesity, one of the widest impacting and deadliest diseases in the world.
It is also shown to have had startling positive effects on addiction of various types, from alcohol to hard drugs, etc. It does something to help moderate the reward centers in the brain to reduce the appeal of these addictions. Many people prescribed the drug report losing weight and ending addictions.
This and its analogs may earnestly be the most successful and most impactful disease curing drug in human history, and has the potential to improve billions of lives.
Semaglutide does cure some ailments and does improve lives. The profit incentive isn’t always misaligned with good health outcomes.
Boy, I'm so glad you aren't running med research, or people my family would be suffering, or dead.
The meds we have today were unthinkable 50,60 years ago.
Are there issues with the system? Yes, huge ones - I could write a book on them. But your attitude is frankly juvenile.