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The Thriving Black Market for a Powerful Weight Loss Drug

NY Times · Jun 18, 2026, 9:00 AM · Also reported by 2 other sources

People are buying what they believe to be retatrutide from WhatsApp groups, Chinese labs and websites selling it “for research purposes.”

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