{"id":634489,"date":"2026-09-24T11:50:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-24T11:50:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/634489\/"},"modified":"2026-09-24T11:50:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-24T11:50:09","slug":"generic-ozempic-out-of-stock-at-pharmacies-across-quebec-amid-recalls-and-skyrocketing-demand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/634489\/","title":{"rendered":"Generic Ozempic\u00a0out of stock at pharmacies across Quebec amid recalls and skyrocketing demand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To cope with Quebec\u2019s shortage of generic weight loss drugs, Vaudreuil resident Rina is rationing the drug and cutting her dose in half. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When she went to Familiprix two weeks ago for a refill of the Apotex generic semaglutide, which costs less than half the price of brand name Ozempic, she said it was completely out of stock. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe pharmacist suggested switching back to Ozempic\u201d said Rina, who asked to keep her last name anonymous. She says she was told, \u201chow about, just to tide you over,\u201d to temporarily cut to the 1 mg dose rather than stick with her normal 2 mg dose, in order to save money. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"To cope with Quebec\u2019s shortage of generic weight loss drugs, Vaudreuil resident Rina is rationing the drug and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":634490,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[103,61,60,371],"class_list":["post-634489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-medication","tag-health","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-medication"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/634489","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=634489"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/634489\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/634490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=634489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=634489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=634489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}