Poison control got 3,000 calls due to Ozempic overdoses this year

For the millions of Americans desperate to lose weight, semaglutide drugs like Ozempic have been a dream come true. But for poison control centers, the popularity of semaglutide has been a nightmare. From January through November of this year, America’s Poison Centers reported almost 3,000 calls involving semaglutide, an increase of more than 1,500% since 2019. And most of the calls were related to dosage errors: “Often times, it’s a... + full article