{"id":838711,"date":"2026-09-06T19:02:19","date_gmt":"2026-09-06T19:02:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/838711\/"},"modified":"2026-09-06T19:02:19","modified_gmt":"2026-09-06T19:02:19","slug":"its-commercially-driven-prescribing-butler-told-to-investigate-the-telehealth-cowboys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/838711\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;It&#8217;s commercially driven prescribing&#8217;: Butler told to investigate the telehealth cowboys"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Dr Monique Ryan is calling on Mark Butler to crackdown on rogue telehealth clinics, as new claims emerge about weight loss medications being prescribed online to people with eating disorders.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The paediatric neurologist turned MP says AHPRA\u2019s powers are insufficient  \u2014 especially when faced with clinics where big money can be made from prescribing, dispensing and selling the medications.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe prescribing of weight loss medications to patients who may be experiencing anorexia or other eating disorders is one example of the kind of harm inadequate supervision can produce,\u201d Dr Ryan wrote in a letter to the federal health minister.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She told AusDoc\u00a0she was consistently hearing from GPs concerned about the risks of telehealth prescribing for GLP-1 RAs, ADHD medications, peptides. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dr Monique Ryan is calling on Mark Butler to crackdown on rogue telehealth clinics, as new claims emerge&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":838712,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[97,243],"class_list":["post-838711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-medication","tag-health","tag-medication"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/838711","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=838711"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/838711\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/838712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=838711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=838711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=838711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}