The rush by Americans to buy a weight loss drug from Canadian pharmacies puts our drug supply at risk
There is a growing online industry that is diverting Canadian prescription medicines to U.S. residents looking for cheaper drugs by mail.But the explosion of popularity of Ozempic, a medication for Type 2 diabetes widely touted on social media as a weight loss solution, has exposed an unhealthy practice that requires a remedy from Ottawa, the provinces and medical regulatory bodies.
In January and February, almost 16,000 prescriptions for Ozempic were filled in B.C. for patients in the United States. Most of them were processed by two Metro Vancouver pharmacies. And almost all those prescriptions, according to the B.C. government, were signed by a small number of physicians in Nova Scotia.set by the province’s college of physicians,
The issue of cross-border sales of Canadian drugs to Americans seeking lower prices is not new, and agencies such as the Canadian Health Policy Institute have warned for years that Canada needs effective regulation to avoid critical drug shortages.
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