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for people who want the drug to access it. This has contributed to drug shortages.
A retail pharmacist in Central California, who did not want their name published, spoke about the opposite end of the experience with PopSci. “At first we were getting an influx of patients who were diabetic and we saw how much it helped. Then all of a sudden there was a surge of non-diabetic patients and we could not get semaglutide for our diabetic patients.”
Now, most practitioners have to provide a diabetes diagnosis when prescribing Ozempic for insurance reasons, they explain. “At the same time, the supply chain was also a major contributor to the shortage. For a while, we couldn’t get the drug at all through McKesson [a drug distributor] and our diabetes patients suffered. We had to switch them to Trulicity [the brand name for the drug dulaglutide] and even that went out of stock for a while.
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