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An investigation into how social media is driving a growing dangerous and deadly market for illegal diet drugs, which is going unregulated and inadequately policed. Journalist Amber Haque meets young people who felt pressurised to take illegal drugs they found online, with devastating consequences for their health. Phentermine an addictive drug banned by the NHS. Melanotan 2, also known as the Barbie drug. She meets the parents of Beth who died after taking DNP as a weight loss drug, a poison known in body building circles as a shredder drug.

Team

Richard Tilley

FullFat TV

Produced by Fiona Fung

Directed by Simon Rawles

Process

Working closely with the production team at FullFat TV, compositing, motion graphics and UI design was adopted to visualise the many social media platforms at play in this damning documentary. Platforms like TikTok have a lot to answer for. With teenage children myself I felt very strongly about this narrative and was really pleased to help tell this important story.

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