It used to beusedas a medicine, when medicines consisted of coal tars, snake venoms, opiates, alcohols, and all sorts of other ingredients with some very nasty results from their use.
Like medicine, drug discovery was described as something that used to be an art but now was a science, and thus amenable to industrialization, and well-positioned to reap the associated benefits: economies of scale, benefits of standardization, robust metrics, etc.
The drug's potential is as a medicine to decrease the risk of heart attacks, but it's going to beused for weight loss first, where considerable attention is likely to be paid to possible overuse.