Lethal diet pills are still widely available to users in Tayside and Fife despite a world-wide Interpol warning.
Over the next two days, our reporter lifts the lid on the murky websites still trading in the pungent bright yellow drug.
We speak to the NHS Fife health expert warning vulnerable youngsters not to succumb to temptation and pinpoint sources in China, California and Turkey that are shipping the drug to Courier Country.
In a rundown of the history of the drug, we tell how it started life as a First World War explosive before a 1933 US study found it had ‘fat burning’ qualities.
Over a series of case studies we speak to the Fife bodybuilder and Dundee anorexia sufferer who have both tried varying forms of diet pills.
We also look at the tragic case of 21-year-old Eloise Parry whose life was claimed by the drug DNP and ask an Angus diet guru how to stay fit without any artificial assistance.
