As of September, an estimated 1.5 million people in the UK used GLP-1s, with over 90 per cent paying privately. Many prescriptions are available online, allowing people who don’t qualify for the drugs on the NHS to access them for non-traditional reasons, such as chronic pain or recreational weight loss. A black market has also sprung up in... See more

Younger’s sentiment is echoed across TikTok comment sections, where anti-vax Ozempic users defend their self-medication by emphasising its ‘natural’ origins – often in direct opposition to ‘manufactured’ vaccines. It is online, where anti-vax and wellness discourse is rife, that the increasing ideological weaponisation of alternative medicine is at... See more