Quick fix comes at a price: Heavy demand for weight loss ‘miracle’

Drugs prescribed to treat diabetes and the disease of obesity are being touted on social media as a quick fix to lose weight. This is beginning to have repercussions in Ireland for people in real need of these drugs

YOU’VE seen them on TV ads and TikTok, or heard them joked about at the Oscars — Ozempic, Wegovy, and Mounjaro.

Thanks to celebrity endorsements from the likes of Kim Kardashian and Elon Musk these so-called “wonder” drugs have been hijacked by a generation of users who are flooding social media with posts and videos boasting their properties as a “miracle” weight loss hack.