Friday, April 24, 2015

Attempt to ban toxic 'diet drug' DNP fails

News comes just days after ‘slimming pill’ kills Eloise Parry, who had been seeking medical help to stop taking drug

An attempt to ban the possession of the toxic “diet drug” DNP has failed, it has emerged just days after student Eloise Parry became the fifth person in three years to die after taking the pill bought over the internet.

Parents of two other young victims are understood to have been told in March by an MP that because the drug did not have any psychoactive properties it did not fall under existing laws that could make its possession a criminal offence.

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