Joey Silva, a counselor, said employees scrambled to make sure patients had all their needed medication, medical records and patient identification.

The latest initiative comes more than three decades after the colorant was barred from cosmetics and non-oral medications due to potentially causing cancer.

That hasn’t stopped a torrent of fat phobia and often frankly hateful cultural attitudes towards weight the drugs have helped fuel, despite having benefits and risks like any other medication.

Since taking the drug, Kyle says he's been having problems with his sexual, mental and physical health - problems he had never experienced before and which have persisted since he stopped the medication.

This could affect other medical care, like miscarriage management, and stop medication abortion from being mailed as well.