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Did you think that diet pills from abroad could help you lose weight? They could be illegal drugs.
Although the number of cases related to well-known drugs, such as marijuana and heroin, is in declined this year, there has been an increase in cases related to selling and taking illegal psychotropic substances since 2018, the city’s anti-drug commission said on Monday.
Illegal psychotropic substances include some diet pills, sleeping pills and smart drugs. Among those, the percentage of cases involving in diet pills accounts for 85 percent (over 200 cases), the commission said.
The diet pills mainly contained amfepramone and phentermine, which can . help control the appetite by making people feel full. But they have severe side-effects such as overexciteness, insomnia and even psychological disorder, according to the commission. To avoid those effects, the pills may also include diazepam, nitrazepam and flunitrazepam, drugs which have hypnotic, sedative and anti-anxiety effects and are also added in sleeping pills.
Some drugs strictly controlled by the government are showed. Phentermine (third left) is one of the main ingredients in DC diet pills
The most famous illegal diet pill is Dermcare Clinic diet pill, or DC diet pill, imported from Thailand.
“The effect of the drug on weight loss may be not obvious according to different people. And It was accompanied by strong unpleasant side effects,” said Li Ling, head of Tongren Hospital’s pharmacy department
She said a doctor will consider the positive and negative effects when they prescribe medication because every medicine has side effects but they would not let patients take such dangerous things as DC diet pills.
Some drugs strictly controlled by the government are showed. Phentermine (third left) is one of the main ingredients in DC diet pills
