Weight-Loss Drug Boom Sent Poison Control Calls Soaring, and Most Were Avoidable
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Somewhere in a poison control center, a phone rings, and the person on the other end has been injecting their weight-loss medication every single day. They were supposed to take it once a week. Worse, they started at the full dose rather than easing in. The call is logged, coded in near real time by a specialist trained in clinical toxicology, and fed into a national database. Multiply that scene by thousands, year after year, and you get one of the stranger public health signals of the decade:
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