{"id":719,"date":"2025-07-11T05:48:04","date_gmt":"2025-07-11T05:48:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/719\/"},"modified":"2025-07-11T05:48:04","modified_gmt":"2025-07-11T05:48:04","slug":"thousands-of-ozempic-scripts-written-for-under-18s-data-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/719\/","title":{"rendered":"Thousands of Ozempic scripts written for under-18s, data show"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Under-18s are receiving scripts for the blockbuster semaglutide drug Ozempic despite it not being TGA-approved for children or adolescents.<\/p>\n<p>The Department of Health, Disability and Ageing says 625 prescribers wrote 2832 scripts for Ozempic for under-18s between 2020-21 and 2023-24 under the PBS.<\/p>\n<p>Some 1514 scripts were written in 2023-24.<\/p>\n<p>Lack of data means the precise clinical indications for which the drug is being used is largely\u00a0unknown.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\u00d7<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\tSign in\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p class=\"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":"Under-18s are receiving scripts for the blockbuster semaglutide drug Ozempic despite it not being TGA-approved for children or&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":720,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[985,97,243,3,986,987],"class_list":{"0":"post-719","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-medication","8":"tag-diabetes","9":"tag-health","10":"tag-medication","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-obesity","13":"tag-semaglutide"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/719","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=719"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/719\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}