The weight loss drugs sweeping Australia

Billionaire tech boss Elon Musk takes a version of it. Model Julia Fox has denied using it. We’re talking, of course, about the new weight-loss drug that has swept the globe. The weekly injection that helps people feel fuller on less food.

It is now, say local doctors, shockingly easy to get. But is Ozempic, and other drugs like it, medical magic? Are they the first medications to produce double-digit weight loss without crippling side effects? 

Or are the drugs and the new online shops now selling them fostering a new generation of patients who will end up suffering unintended consequences? 

Today, technology editor Nick Bonyhady joins Samantha Selinger-Morris to discuss the potential - and the dangers - of the weight loss drugs that are sweeping Australia. 

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