{"id":50399,"date":"2026-06-16T15:16:01","date_gmt":"2026-06-16T15:16:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/?p=50399"},"modified":"2026-06-16T15:16:01","modified_gmt":"2026-06-16T15:16:01","slug":"the-peptide-boom-how-the-us-got-hooked-on-unregulated-miracle-drugs-on-the-ground-us-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/?p=50399","title":{"rendered":"The peptide boom: how the US got hooked on unregulated \u2018miracle\u2019 drugs | On the Ground | US news"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Across the US, thousands of people are injecting themselves with unregulated peptides in pursuit of weight loss, muscle growth and younger-looking skin. Despite being labelled &#8216;not for human consumption&#8217;, the substances are readily available online and have surged in popularity among people disillusioned by traditional healthcare. To find out why so many Americans are willing to risk unknown side-effects for the promise of a quick fix, Adam Gabbatt meets the users and influencers driving the peptide boom, and investigates what&#8217;s really inside some of these so-called &#8216;miracle&#8217; drugs<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Across the US, thousands of people are injecting themselves with unregulated peptides in pursuit of weight loss, muscle growth and younger-looking skin. Despite being labelled &#8216;not for human consumption&#8217;, the substances are readily available online and have surged in popularity among people disillusioned by traditional healthcare. To find out why so many Americans are willing<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":50400,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[710,542,3280,19885,7613,150,23849,4459],"class_list":{"0":"post-50399","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health","8":"tag-boom","9":"tag-drugs","10":"tag-ground","11":"tag-hooked","12":"tag-miracle","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-peptide","15":"tag-unregulated"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50399"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50399\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/50400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}