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Re:Ozempic drug supresses desire to smoke, drink and more by tboyd47 on Friday May 19, 2023 @12:39PM (#36003911)
They will find some way to prevent people from acquiring it and promote some other in-patent drug.
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Re:Ozempic drug supresses desire to smoke, drink and more by toomuchtodo on Friday May 19, 2023 @12:40PM (#36003922)
Lots of ways around jurisdictional regs. Consider how many people live near a national border.

https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/articles/2018-11-01/...

Also, I expect CRISPR or gene therapy to be the long game wrt this.

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Re:Ozempic drug supresses desire to smoke, drink and more by HDThoreaun on Friday May 19, 2023 @12:43PM (#36003969)
It is not possible to stop people from getting mail order pills from China. Especially with the abortion restrictions the market already is pretty large and it will be easy for them to throw these drugs in too.
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Re:Ozempic drug supresses desire to smoke, drink and more by trasz4 on Friday May 19, 2023 @12:46PM (#36004013)
We used to believe it was not possible to stop people from getting their funny movie clips from China.
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Re:Ozempic drug supresses desire to smoke, drink and more by pseudo0 on Friday May 19, 2023 @01:00PM (#36004228)
The solution to that was a $10 per month subscription via Netflix and clips for free on YouTube. Meanwhile Ozempic is around $1,000 for a month's supply. That is a margin on par with illegal hard drugs, which already have a smuggling supply chain from China to North America (eg. Fentanyl and variants).
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