INDIANAPOLIS — It’s just days before Christmas as medical workers wheel 7-year-old Jessa Milender through the halls of the hospital. The normally bubbly child is limp, face down on a medical gurney. She’s being admitted after overdosing on her mother’s prescription GLP-1 medication.
“She couldn’t walk from exhaustion and severe pain,” said Melissa Milender. “She wouldn’t even allow them to touch her stomach. She’d scream out in pain in her sleep. It was awful.”
Poison centers nationwide are seeing a spike in calls about people taking too much GLP-1 medication. Research suggests the increase in patients being prescribed Ozempic, Mounjaro and other similar drugs is causing the rise in overdose reports…