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Yeah I looked up prescribing regulations for it as well, it seems mostly to be used for bariatric patients with regain after surgery from what I could see, not sure how they get away with it, possibly some loophole. I'm Aussie too.Bloody expensive if just used for weightloss in Australia as it's "off script use" for non-diabetics and even diabetics that don't meet the requirements. As an "authority medication" without meeting the very specific diabetes guidelines, patients could only get it as a private script (meaning no govt rebate) and the private script charge is $1700 per pen which is only one months supply. Generally here the private health insurance companies cap their prescription rebates to $100.
Source for cost, https://www.health.gov.au/ministers...dispensing-measures-of-pbs-medicines-extended
Here, the government audits doctors prescribing habits, and those that are caught skirting the requirements are subject to deregistration.
If interested just click the restrictions.