Additional NY requirements: Mandatory PDMP check within 24 hours before prescribing any Schedule II-IV drug All prescriptions must be e-prescribed (paper prescriptions only in rare exceptions) Psychiatric NPs can practice independently after 3,600 hours, but treating obesity may be outside their usual scope Florida: Permissive for Psychiatry, Strict for Weight Loss The good news: Florida explicitly allows telehealth prescribing of Schedule II controlled substances for psychiatric disorders so you can prescribe Adderall or Vyvanse for ADHD via telemedicine
Your provider will need to document that you still meet all of the requirements above and also the new requirements for continuing therapy: You have also lost at least 5% of your baseline body weight since you started using Zepbound
People who consistently show stronger effects include those with overweight or obesity, older adults who may have declining muscle carnitine stores, and people with low dietary intake of carnitine
Optimal Health Medical approaches peptide therapy as an individualized medical decision that should account for the patients history, current treatment, evidence quality, regulatory status, product source, monitoring needs, and realistic goals
Because the trial randomized fewer participants than originally planned, the researchers also used change-score analyses to assess baseline-to-posttreatment changes
