{"id":162226,"date":"2025-12-01T06:00:06","date_gmt":"2025-12-01T06:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/162226\/"},"modified":"2025-12-01T06:00:06","modified_gmt":"2025-12-01T06:00:06","slug":"australias-drug-regulator-issues-mental-health-warning-for-weight-loss-drugs-including-ozempic-health","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/162226\/","title":{"rendered":"Australia\u2019s drug regulator issues mental health warning for weight-loss drugs including Ozempic | Health"},"content":{"rendered":"

The medicines regulator has added two new safety warnings about mental health and contraception for people taking high-profile diabetes and weight loss drugs.<\/p>\n

The Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) says that because suicidal behaviour and ideation have been reported with these relatively new GLP-1 receptor agonists, doctors should \u201cmonitor patients for the emergence or worsening of depression, suicidal thoughts or behaviours, and\/or any unusual changes in mood or behaviour\u201d.<\/p>\n

The warning of the potential risk of suicidal thoughts applies across the GLP-1 RA class of medicines, including Ozempic, Wegovy, Saxenda, Trulicity and Mounjaro.<\/p>\n

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The TGA has also issued a separate warning around Mounjaro and contraception.<\/p>\n

After investigating the potential reduced effectiveness of oral contraception when first taking or increasing the dose of Mounjaro, the TGA said it could not rule out an association.<\/p>\n

As a precautionary measure, it has updated the product warnings for Mounjaro to include further advice for patients using oral contraceptives to switch to a non-oral contraceptive or add a barrier method of contraception for four weeks after first taking the medicine and for four weeks after each increase in the dose.<\/p>\n

It added that none of the GLP-1 RA class of medicine should be used during pregnancy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The medicines regulator has added two new safety warnings about mental health and contraception for people taking high-profile…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":162227,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[134,524,111,139,69],"class_list":{"0":"post-162226","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-medication","8":"tag-health","9":"tag-medication","10":"tag-new-zealand","11":"tag-newzealand","12":"tag-nz"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162226","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=162226"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162226\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/162227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}