Pill mills are essentially like doctors offices that are mostly just fronts to get people prescriptions that they want. In Alicia Mundy's book, Dispensing with the Truth, there are many firsthand accounts of people who are not seeing a doctor. Weight loss companies like NutriSystem and Jenny Craig start figuring out how to weave FENFEN and Redux into their programs.
Fen-Phen & Redux were "the next miracle drugs" in the '90s, claiming to help people lose dramatic amounts of weight in just three months. But within a few short years, they'd been pulled from the market. They were just too effective! (Just kidding, they killed some people.)
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