Nova Scotia’s college of physicians suspends doctor it alleges wrote more than 17,000 prescriptions in three months for the drug that’s widely used off-label for weight loss
The scale is impressive: B.C. Health Minister Adrian Dix has outlined how Americans are using Canadian pharmacies to acquireThousands of U.S. residents received Ozempic prescriptions at fees of roughly $300 per month – rather than the U.S. going rate of up to $900 per month – by getting their prescriptions written by a Canadian doctor and filled via two B.C. pharmacies.it alleges was the go-to for many of those Americans.
In a letter to the Nova Scotia College of Physicians, the B.C. college noted two pharmacies in the province had received 7,500 prescriptions written for semaglutide in February, 5,800 in January and 3,860 in December. That is a total of 17,160 over three months. “I cannot see how the volume of medications prescribed could possibly be supported by proper medical assessment and judgment. On its face, the prescribing appears incompetent.”
Now that there is some clarity on who was issuing the prescriptions, there has yet to be much information on the B.C.-based pharmacies that filled them.
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