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jeffw@lemmy.world to Health - Resources and discussion for everything health-related@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year ago

Buying shady weight loss drugs online is a bad idea, in case you were wondering

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Buying shady weight loss drugs online is a bad idea, in case you were wondering

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jeffw@lemmy.world to Health - Resources and discussion for everything health-related@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year ago
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Risk assessment study of illegal online pharmacies offers some unsurprising data.
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      Listen, some of us can’t shake the thrill of the ultimate gamble. Will this make me put down the burger or pull out my liver? Oh, the dizzying highs of rapid weight loss, and the terrifying lows of rapid weight loss doth call me…

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        If you die you lose a lot of weight fast.

        It really is quite rapid

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      It blows my mind as well, but yeah, and it’s been a thing with a wide variety of drugs for many years now.

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      The Ozempic scams were run out of the rogue online pharmacies: weightcrunchshop.com, puremedsonline.com, and genius-pharmacy.com.

      They didn’t try the right places. Gotta use the dark web to get the good good.

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        There are no reliable dark net markets left. It’s nothing like it was 10-15 years ago

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          Has it really gone that far down hill? I was finding great products like 4 or so years ago?

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            Life used to be so simple. Check a forum for some Dutch lab analyzing a product before you buy it. Go to another thread to volunteer for free samples. Until you wake up one morning to a DEA/FBI/other agency takedown notice on your preferred marketplace, cursing Ulbricht and hoping the feds don’t knock down your door.

            I haven’t seen anything remotely close to the community that used to exist. Maybe I just haven’t tried hard enough though.

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              Just let me buy the good drugs Mr Guvment!

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                That’s right, any federal agent reading this! I NEVER bought anything!

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        Yeah, you absolutely can buy this stuff online, but not from anywhere that ends in .com

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    But what about sunny weight loss drugs?

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    South Park proved that…or…did they encourage it?..

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    Don’t know if lemmy has this but should this not be under YSK?

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