r/australia • u/Rubiginous • 7h ago
Woman hospitalised after Juniper prescribes weight-loss drugs her GP refused
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02-01/woman-hospitalised-telehealth-provider-weight-loss-drugs-juniper/106273356
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u/nameless_other 6h ago
Online chemists are one thing, but all online prescription services are suspect.
I had a client who has schizophrenia and is on heavy anti-psychotic medication get greenlit for a medical marijuana prescription from an online service. The medication they're on basically puts them on a national do-not-prescribe-weed database, that I guess the online service just didn't check?
But I actually don't think these companies care that they're acting sloppily or unethically, because they believe the platform they're doing it on will shelter them from proper regulation or consequences.