The Pharmaceutical Journal found users being offered prescription drugs as diet pills
TikTok has removed postings promoting migraine and epilepsy drugs to under-18s as weight loss aids after criticism that hosting them was a danger to young people’s health.
An appetite suppressant drug called phentermine, and products based on it, were the prescription drugs most commonly mentioned in the posts. Phentermine is not licensed for use in the UK. John Wilding, a professor of medicine at Aintree university hospital in Liverpool, said that another of the drugs for sale – topiramate, which is used to treat epilepsy and migraines – “has never been approved for weight loss in the EU or the UK as it has some significant potential adverse events”, including the risk of damage to unborn children and babies.
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