{"id":14721,"date":"2025-02-17T10:28:44","date_gmt":"2025-02-17T15:28:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/whizkid.com\/a4pc\/?p=14721"},"modified":"2025-03-03T10:29:54","modified_gmt":"2025-03-03T15:29:54","slug":"npr-shows-why-license-lookup-matters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whizkid.com\/a4pc\/2025-02\/npr-shows-why-license-lookup-matters\/","title":{"rendered":"NPR shows why license-lookup matters"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"blog-post__body\">\n<p>NPR\u2019s Sydney Lupkin took another angle on the GLP-1 story: What happens when patients use an unlicensed pharmacy for their compounded medications? In this case it was a Florida pharmacy that was compounding tirzepatide without a license. Patients found out about it, leaving them fearful to use the meds \u2026 and, once the pharmacy shut down, unable to get refunds.<\/p>\n<p>And that, we explained for the piece, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/shots-health-news\/2025\/02\/17\/nx-s1-5299288\/semaglutide-wegovy-zepbound-compounding-pharmacy\">When online weight-loss drugs are too good to be true<\/a>,\u201d is why licensing matters \u2014 and so does <em>checking<\/em> for one. (Hint: Use <a href=\"https:\/\/a4pc.org\/isitlegit\">APC\u2019s \u201cIs it Legit\u201d page<\/a> to find out.)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What happens when patients use an unlicensed pharmacy?<br \/><span class=\"read-more\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/whizkid.com\/a4pc\/2025-02\/npr-shows-why-license-lookup-matters\/\"><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14717,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[114],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-inthenews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whizkid.com\/a4pc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14721","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/whizkid.com\/a4pc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/whizkid.com\/a4pc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whizkid.com\/a4pc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whizkid.com\/a4pc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14721"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/whizkid.com\/a4pc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14721\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14722,"href":"https:\/\/whizkid.com\/a4pc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14721\/revisions\/14722"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whizkid.com\/a4pc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whizkid.com\/a4pc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whizkid.com\/a4pc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whizkid.com\/a4pc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}