“She couldn't walk from exhaustion and severe pain,” said Melissa Milender. Poison centers nationwide are seeing a spike in calls about people taking too much GLP-1 medication. The Indiana Poison Center tells 13 Investigates calls doubled from 2024 to 2025, with 320 calls in 2025.
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... [7570 chars]