MPs told of black market weight-loss drugs

Many people accessing weight loss medicines through unregulated online sources ‘don’t know’ that they’re buying from the black market, the Health and Social Care Committee heard. “We cannot arrest our way out of this. It is about educating the public,” Andy Morling, head of the MHRA’s criminal enforcement unit, told the committee. Relevant as GLP-1 weight loss drugs are claimed to curb addictive impulses.