>200,000 doctors paid by Big Pharma to promote GLP-1, blood thinners, etc.
GLP-1 boom is flooding doctors with drugmaker cash
Has been steadily increasing: 140,000 doctors in 2025
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GLP-1
- Ozempic's (GLP-1) depravity is worse than COVID vaccines - 2025
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Reminder, only US and NZ allow direct-to-consumer advertising of drugs
Clipped from Claude AI Sept 2026
For GLP-1s specifically, there's a second US-specific lever that may matter more than the doctor payments: among high-income countries, only the US and New Zealand permit product-claim direct-to-consumer advertising of prescription drugs Cureus. The Ozempic ads driving patients to ask their doctor by name simply don't exist in most of the world.