Exclusive: Calls for stricter checks after Guardian investigation into availability of controversial drugs
Online pharmacies operating in the UK are approving and dispatching prescriptions of controversial slimming jabs for people of a healthy weight, a Guardian investigation has found.
However, the medications, which are administered by injection, are controversial because they can cause side-effects such as nausea and fatigue, and it is thought weight loss will reverse when the drugs are stopped.has been approved for use in the UK for certain groups of people with obesity – meaning a BMI of 30 or greater – or who are overweight with a BMI of 27 to 30 and have weight-related health problems.
On two occasions an online consultation for Ozempic – accurately filled in by a 1.7-metre female reporter weighing 57kg , resulting in a BMI of about 20 – was immediately approved and dispatched by the online pharmacy Daily Chemist. “I definitely am not in the weight category to qualify for any kind of weight-loss drug really. But I decided I really wanted the quick fix,” she said. “I could afford it.”
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