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Trending today: semaglutide, a drug initially used to help people lose weight by making them feel less hungry. Turns out the drug also reduces other desires as well, though, so folks are now using it to control addictions to drinking, smoking, and gambling; it can even help with nervous tics like biting your nails. All of which would be great – if that discovery hadn’t caused demand for the drug to skyrocket so much that it’s no longer available for the people it was originally designed for. Ivermectin all over again.

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