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I nearly died after buying skinny jab from friend of friend
Key takeaways
- Gill Dummigan North West health correspondent PA/Andrew Matthews Some black market weight loss jabs contain windscreen wash, a campaign group has said.
- Chloe (not her real name), from Liverpool, ended up in intensive care and was off work for three months after just one dose of a pen.
- Campaign group Save Face said some black market "skinny jabs" had been shown to contain windscreen wash and want the law to be more strictly enforced on illegal sellers.
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Gill Dummigan North West health correspondent PA/Andrew Matthews Some black market weight loss jabs contain windscreen wash, a campaign group has said. A woman who nearly died after injecting herself with a weight loss drug she had bought from a "friend of a friend" is warning others of the potential dangers of unregulated jabs.
Chloe (not her real name), from Liverpool, ended up in intensive care and was off work for three months after just one dose of a pen.
Campaign group Save Face said some black market "skinny jabs" had been shown to contain windscreen wash and want the law to be more strictly enforced on illegal sellers.
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