Today, Fentermine is number 210 on the list of the most prescribed medications in the US. "I feel like history is always a nice corrective to this idea that it's like we made a mistake as a society and then we learned and we never did it again," he says.
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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