by Nia Choi, Shreya S. Sheth, Tam T. Doan, William Buck Kyle, BriAnna Souder, Aura Sanchez, Deidra Ansah, Emily Lawrence, Hasti Sanandajifar, James Chris Wilkinson, Betul Yilmaz Furtun
Patients are mining Reddit and TikTok for symptom intel while you're not — and a small study calls it epistemic injustice. Different knowledge, mutually unrecognized. Maybe ask where they've been reading before you wave it off as anecdote.
In a target-trial emulation of more than 600,000 veterans, GLP-1 RA initiators saw fewer new substance use disorders—and patients with existing SUDs had fewer overdoses, hospitalizations, and deaths.