The Booming Market for Backdoor Ozempic
Off-label Ozempic, a diabetes drug that also helps users lose weight, is being sold at med spas across the U.S. (Illustration: Dura Lee for The Free Press)
It’s not just celebrities. Women around the country are going to great lengths to procure ‘liquid gold’ in our bottomless appetite to be thin.
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It’s noon on a Wednesday, when most people would be eating lunch. But not Kate Barone, an Atlanta-based salon owner who is 5 feet 1 with blonde hair down to her waist. She recently got down to 90 pounds from a high of around 120 on semaglutide, the active ingredient in the blockbuster diabetes drug Ozempic.
She said she’s off the injections for now while…
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