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    20 days ago

    If you’ve ever been crippled by food addiction or alcoholism or gambling or drug addiction, having those problems suddenly disappear is like someone lifting a ten ton truck off of you that had been crushing you for decades. CAN FINALLY LIVE A NORMAL LIFE WITH NO MORE INSATIABLE DEMONS CONSTANTLY BEGGING FOR ENDLESS SUPPLIES OF EVERYTHING. Free & light & like 90% of that mental space has been opened up, can live a normal life now.

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      People who know addiction, get it. People who don’t, wonder why you can’t control yourself.

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        20 days ago

        Exactly! It’s not a matter of self-control or moral failing or weakness. It’s a relentless soul-deep insatiable craving that never goes away until you’re sick from overflowing of the thing, and next time you wake up you need more. It’s literally a medical issue and

        I’m SO GLAD the medical industry is starting to recognize this. Although there is still hella fight back even from insurance companies refusing to prescribe GLP-1’s to all the people who would benefit from it, because

        The food industry has suffered noticable financial losses since all the GLP-1 people have been buying less food.

        And word still needs to spread that this shit cures alcoholism & drug addiction & all other addictive behaviors too. And of course that would probably put the alcohol industry and for-profit prisons nearly out of business too.

        Imagine a world full of people no longer running around seeking dopamine hits all the time! So many industries would lose so much revenue over this!

        And that’s why all I’ve seen in the media is antagonization toward this medicine. It’s an agenda to keep people sick & spending money on shit that keeps them sick & addicted. Because that’s good for capitalism.