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Health warning as £10 fat jabs set to flood UK black market

As patents for the drugs near expiry, other manufacturers are already launching unlicensed versions of the skinny jabs

Evening Standard · Mar 26

Warning over ‘wild west’ of weight-loss drugs on black market: ‘We can’t arrest our way out of this’

Over the last three years the MHRA seized 81,000 doses of GLP-1 drugs

The Independent UK · Mar 25

Weight loss jabs’ medicine-cosmetics blurring ‘raises black market drugs risk’

Profit margins from black market sales of medicines can rival cocaine and heroin, MPs were told.

Evening Standard · Mar 25

Breast surgeons see problems from procedures abroad on weekly basis, MPs told

Health officials appeared in front of the Women and Equalities Committee.

Evening Standard · Jul 16, 2025

‘Don’t buy weight-loss pills online without prescription after Christmas over-eating,’ Britons warned

The warning was issued by the UK’s medicines watchdog

Evening Standard · Dec 30, 2024