OPINION - Ozempic reminds me of a drug they gave my grandmother for weight loss: speed

My grandmother, who loved food, was briefly thin — and very mad, apparently — in the Seventies due to amphetamines, which her doctor prescribed for her weight. It was the wonder drug of the age until it transpired that you did get thin, but you also got psychosis. So, she stopped taking it, and got fatter again, and did less housework because another symptom of amphetamines is that housework — and chain-smoking, which may have been related to the aggressive marketing of amphetamines — become fun. The drug was called Benzedrine: speed.