Prescription Weight Loss Medications

Are your patients asking about prescription weight loss medications? Do you feel like you’re not up-to-date? This five-page guide will solve all your problems! This guide is thorough enough to be used as a clinical reference guide, but is also set up to be given as a patient handout as well.

This detailed list provides all the current FDA-approved weight loss medications, or Anti-Obesity Medications (AOMs).  It also provides information about Plenity, which is actually approved as a weight loss device, not a medication. All of the medications have information about the following:

• Average weight loss
• FDA approval date
• If it’s a controlled substance or not
• Cost ($, $$, $$$, or $$$$)
• Description of what the drug is
• Potential side effects
• Other pertinent information

This handout is a Word document so you can add your own logo or contact information. It is printer-friendly but also works great electronically once saved as a PDF.

*November 2023 update – Zepbound (tirzepatide) has now been added*