{"id":484885,"date":"2026-02-17T03:15:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T03:15:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/484885\/"},"modified":"2026-02-17T03:15:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T03:15:10","slug":"glp-1-ra-culture-puts-patients-with-eating-disorders-at-risk-psychiatrist-warns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/484885\/","title":{"rendered":"GLP-1 RA &#8216;culture&#8217; puts patients with eating disorders at risk,\u00a0psychiatrist warns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The unprecedented public discussion around GLP-1 receptor agonists is raising the risk of patients with eating disorders escalating harmful behaviours, the director of a specialist clinic warns.<\/p>\n<p>Patients with eating disorders have presented to clinicians having taken or been prescribed GLP-1 receptor agonists (RAs), says Dr Kate Murphy, director and consultant psychiatrist for the\u00a0public Queensland Eating Disorder Service.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen people are losing weight, that seems to grab the attention of the population, unfortunately,\u201d she tells AusDoc.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI drive up and down the highway, and I see adverts for medical weight loss.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\u00d7<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\tSign in\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p class=\"d-none message adg-password-reset\">\n\t\t\t\tIf this is your first visit to the new AusDoc website, reset your password<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t<a class=\"adg-reset_password_link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ausdoc.com.au\/wp-login.php?action=lostpassword\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">here.<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The unprecedented public discussion around GLP-1 receptor agonists is raising the risk of patients with eating disorders escalating&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":484886,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[64,63,91550,137,44,89935,161983,16570,40235,6009],"class_list":["post-484885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-glp-1-ra","tag-health","tag-news","tag-prescribing","tag-psychiatry-psychology","tag-regulation","tag-tga","tag-weight"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484885","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=484885"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484885\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/484886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=484885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=484885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=484885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}