Telehealth offering medication to help Americans are described by experts as predatory because they take large sums of money from desperate customers - only to prescribe them prescription pills and provide little long-term support.Dozens of online weight loss clinics have opened in recent years in response to both America's budding obesity crisis and the expansion of telehealth clinics in the U.S. that started before the pandemic but boomed as a result of it. These clinics distribute drugs calls GLP-1s, which were formulated to manage type 2 diabetes but have shown remarkable effectiveness as a weight loss supplement in trials.While the drugs are safe and considered effective, experts fear that these online clinics are basically serving as pill-mills. Anyone desperate enough could shell out over $1,000 each year to take part in programs set-up by firms like Calibrate and Found. While they do provide some coaching and workout plans - the plans are mainly centered around the pills.
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