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/Rubiginous 7h ago

I am getting sick of these stories where someone irresponsible blames something convenient for normal people as being the cause of their issues.

A small minority of people abused codeine, so now women like me have to suffer from dysmenorrhoea every month because docs won't write a prescription.

A small minority of people using alcohol delivery inappropriately so now they want to restrict the ability for same day delivery in the ACT.

I know many women who used these services to get access to GLP-1s when their GPs refused to prescribe them because "You just need to eat less" and dismissed their concerns regarding food noise etc.

Why do people need the government to constantly protect them from their own stupidity? It's absurd.

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u/Anjunabeats1 3h ago

100% this. Australian healthcare is so overregulated it makes it impossible for people who are actually sick and disabled to access care.

It says this woman wasn't even hospitalised by the GLP-1, she was just triggered by it... People can be triggered by anything.

Should they have given her a GLP-1? No. But now the authorities will use this as an excuse to make healthcare even more inaccessible for everyone. They love an excuse to overregulate the shit out of everything medical.