Drugs (Pharmaceuticals)

December 13, 2023

Hair-Loss TikTok Offers Community, and Dubious Recommendations

Zeph Sanders was 20 when his hair began to fall out. As it thinned from the density of AstroTurf to spare wisps, he hid his head […]
November 19, 2023

Thanksgiving Is All About Food. Will Ozempic Make It Better or Worse?

Last month, Gabie Caballero got a call from her brother inviting her to his home in Houston for a Thanksgiving feast. “As soon as he mentioned […]
November 7, 2023

Calls for Financial Details Stall Charity Watch Auction

A social media outcry over its more than $100 million in donations led Only Watch, one of the industry’s most high-profile events, to cancel its Nov. […]
June 14, 2023

New Obesity Drugs Come With a Side Effect of Shaming

Wegovy and other drugs expose a social tension between a quest to medicate illness and a stigmatizing belief that obese people lack sufficient willpower to lose […]
January 24, 2023

Those Weight Loss Drugs May Do a Number on Your Face

How many injections are you willing to endure to preserve the structural integrity of your face and derrière? For a certain segment of the 1 percent, […]
January 24, 2023

Those Weight Loss Drugs May Do a Number on Your Face

How many injections are you willing to endure to preserve the structural integrity of your face and derrière? For a certain segment of the 1 percent, […]
May 19, 2022

Seeking Pills, Young People Head to Social Media, With Deadly Results

The soaring drug fatalities in the U.S. are being fueled partly by fentanyl-tainted pills bought by teenagers and young adults on Snapchat, Instagram, TikTok and other […]
April 27, 2021

Inject the Vaccine Fan Fiction Directly Into My Veins

It feels very American to turn the vaccine rollout into a branding spectacle rooted in the worship of pharmaceutical companies. What is your favorite piece of […]
January 30, 2021

Nitrous Nation: A Party Drug Endures

It’s a gas, gas, gas.Credit…Universal Images Group, via Getty Images Nitrous Nation Hippie crack. Whippets. Laughing gas. A casual party drug endures. It’s a gas, gas, […]
October 16, 2019

What Are the Benefits of CBD?

The CBD industry is flourishing, conservatively projected to hit $16 billion in the United States by 2025. Already, the plant extract is being added to cheeseburgers, […]