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What are historically medicines found an opposite use for? Like Viagra being a heart pill but now a boner pill. Or Ozempic being a diabetic drug but now pretty much used for weight loss? (lemmy.world)

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[–] Snapperhead@lemmy.world 13 points 7 months ago

Warfarin (Coumadin) is used as a blood thinner, but was created as rat poison

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