Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 2022
Good Practice Its important for me to acknowledge that there are brilliant Practices in the UK that know their patients need their B12 injections and are either still administering them or are prescribing ampoules and equipment to make it possible for patients to self treat
When a medication is prescribed for something other than its approved usage under the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme, its called off label prescribing
Oprea AD, Ostapenko LJ, Sweitzer B, Selzer A, Irizarry-Alvarado JM, Hurtado Andrade MD, et al
And the third piece of the story and the one thats the least developed but is the most important, of course, is the randomized-clinical-trial evidence, and there we now have two studies of GLP-1 agonists for alcohol-use disorder, one of which was negative using an older drug called exenatide or Bydureon
They stimulate insulin secretion from the pancreas when blood glucose levels are elevated, helping to control blood sugar