NYT Thriving Black Market for a powerful Weight Loss Drug

[CurlySlacker42]

Gift link to article: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/18/...e_code=1.rFA.BoVF.jM01MgRhLDWF&smid=url-share

I don’t care for alarmist articles like this.

 

[spanky2026]

Love how these articles barely give a one sentence lip-service to the elephant in the room: WHY people turn to grey instead of big pharma. Access and affordability get nary a mention, let's instead look at the big scary Underworld, ohhhhh.

 

[trojanpeptide]

nytimes...
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[CurlySlacker42]

Love how these articles barely give a one sentence lip-service to the elephant in the room: WHY people turn to grey instead of big pharma. Access and affordability get nary a mention, let's instead look at the big scary Underworld, ohhhhh.

The article doesn’t touch on it, but the comments do.

“If health insurance didnt keep forcing people off these amazing meds or not allowing people to try them at all, maybe there wouldn't be so many who are so desperate that they feel they must turn to compounding or the black market. And, this is not even counting all those who don't have health insurance at all. The man in the article, at 447 pounds, was clearly not being helped enough by his doctors or his insurance. What is someone like that man, supposed to do, then? Diets, calorie counting and exercise do not work for the severely overweight.”