Note that this was about a diseases a little more serious than a little cough. Mostly tuberculosis, also helping with insomnia from the same.
More on that: https://medicine.yale.edu/news/yale-medicine-magazine/article/from-cough-medicine-to-deadly-addiction-a-century/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/11862675/
I think instead they should suggest some hashtags. I.e. Topics the person is interested in. And the rest could work just as it is now. You would immediately have your home feed populated without doom scrolling topics you don’t care about. But really it’s more on the app developers to implement.