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Surge in unapproved GLP-1 drugs alarming poison control, safe medicine advocates

Summary by NBC Bay Area
The CA Poison Control System says it's receiving constant calls from people reporting getting sick and even hospitalized after taking GLP-1 drugs, many of them...

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Semaglutide and Tirzepatide are profoundly changing the treatment of type 2 diabetes and obesity. But their therapeutic success is creating a misunderstanding: to consider them simply as slimming drugs. Actually, when prescribed to a patient with diabetes or clinically significant obesity, we are faced with pharmacological therapies for chronic diseases, with [...] The article Boom buying slimming drugs, the alarm of experts: "I'm not an aesthet…

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GLP-1 analogue drugs, such as semaglutide and liraglutide, have changed the treatment of obesity. The risk arises when they are bought without prescription or provenance, and applied without diagnosis.

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NBC Bay Area broke the news in San Jose, United States on Tuesday, September 1, 2026.
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