Pharmacists Warn That People With Eating Disorders Are Misusing Wegovy Prescriptions
Noor Al-Sibai
created: Feb. 2, 2025, 2:15 p.m. | updated: March 19, 2025, 5:36 p.m.
<p>More and more people are taking weight loss injectables like Wegovy and Mounjaro — and pharmacy experts are worried that not everyone prescribed these drugs should have access to them. As Women's Health and other news outlets report, the United Kingdom's National Pharmacy Association is raising concerns about people with histories of disordered eating being able to easily purchase weight loss jabs online. In a letter to the UK's General Pharmaceutical Council, the NPA is urging tougher rules for the online sale of glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor/agonist (GLP-1) drugs, the class of fullness-mimicking medications that includes Wegovy and its popular diabetes […]</p>
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