AXIOS September 16, 2024
Patients are increasingly joining online communities to learn how to make pirated versions of abortion pills, GLP-1s and other prescription drugs and medical treatments.
Why it matters: It’s an outgrowth of frustration with high prices and bottlenecks in the health system, combined with a broader medical freedom movement built around patient empowerment and fueled by social media.
The big picture: Patients already are self-managing more of their care through wearable monitors, telehealth and direct-to-consumer offerings like at-home testing.
- But a subset fed up with long wait times or a lack of answers from doctors is embracing do-it-yourself cures, digging into clinical trials, following the scientific method, and, in some cases, coming up with hacks to treat their conditions, such...
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