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Highly sought after counterfeit versions weight loss jabs being sold illegally social mediaOne Investigation Has been found.
Rettrutide is seen as the ‘King Kong’ of weight loss drugsworks twice as fast current medications According to preliminary studies, to help people lose weight.
The drug is being developed by Eli Lilly, the pharmaceutical giant behind Monjaro, but retatrutide is still on the market. clinical trials And has not yet been licensed for use anywhere in the world.
Yet on major social platforms like Facebook and TikTok, people are selling weight loss injections they claim are Retatrutide.
One Investigation by Channel 4 News It exposed how easily an undercover reporter was able to purchase and collect a counterfeit version of the drug.
When pressed by the reporter, the seller falsely claimed that the injections were obtained from a pharmacy and are available on the NHS. The reporter was also given “conflicting” instructions about how many times per week she should use the jabs.
The investigation found that two companies were selling counterfeit or illegal versions weight loss Medicines. Eli Lilly said it was taking action against the companies. Independent Both have been contacted for comment.
Former Big Brother cast member Aislinn Horgan-Wallace said she lost the vision in one eye after taking a copy of a weight loss drug she bought on TikTok.
When she received her package containing the vaccines, she said it had “no guidance, no instructions.”
She told Channel 4: “There were bags of vomit gathered by my bed. I couldn’t even go to the toilet. It was literally the worst time of my life physically. I lost the vision in one eye. I thought, that’s it. I’m either going to die or I’m going blind. It was just torture.”
When shown one of the illegal jab packages, NHS GP Dr Nancy Allen, who prescribes licensed weight loss drugs, said she had never seen it before, and expressed “serious concerns” about patient safety.
sale of Fat-Fighting Jabs Monjaro and Vegovy reached 2.5 million in July, seven times more than the same period last year, according to data seen by Wire,
Ozempic-style drugs Preparing to make it widely available NHS Under the schemes prepared by Wes StreetingBut they are currently rare on free prescriptions and many people are choosing to go privately.
The jabs have grown in popularity over the past year as they are increasingly used to tackle obesity. About 4 percent of households in Britain currently use them.
Following the investigation, both TikTok and Meta, the parent company of Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, removed the content.
Meta said it is “continuously working to improve detection”.
TikTok also banned related hashtags and search suggestions, and pointed to its community guidelines, which state “it is clear that we do not allow the trading, marketing, or providing access to regulated, prohibited, or high-risk goods and services”. It states: “Contains regulated substances such as products marketed for weight loss or muscle gain.”
A statement from Eli Lilly said: “Retatrutide is an investigational molecule that is legally available only to participants in Lilly’s clinical trials. Anyone claiming to sell retatrutide for human use is breaking the law, and no one should consider taking anything claiming to contain retatrutide outside of a Lilly-sponsored clinical trial.”
program, called Inside the black market of illegal weight loss pillsBroadcast on Channel 4 News on Wednesday nights.