Then, around , at the point when internet marketing and the craze for extreme fitness coincided, DNP sales took off again. At first, the main users were male body builders, many of whom bought it from the owners of their gyms, who in turn had ordered in bulk from internet suppliers. Selling DNP is highly lucrative. Bought and sold online, it is an international trade, and notoriously hard to police.
They run rogue internet pharmacies. They ship DNP and mislabel it. A lot of it is sent by mail. Please be smart about how you go about it. It never hurts to start small. Dealers present themselves as pharmacists, offering advice on dosage and how to take it along with other products. Online articles about DNP are often presented like peer-reviewed academic papers. Abigail Davies, 28, who took DNP more than a decade ago, recalls the compulsion to take extreme risks with her health.
Her anorexia began when she was about nine years old, living in Swansea in an unhappy family situation. Her parents split up and she felt rejected by her father. It convinced me it was the only voice I could really trust. Abigail was repeatedly admitted to hospital, where she was torn between wanting to recover and being avid to learn how to be better at anorexia.
You had to be the best at it. When she was 14, Abigail ordered DNP online, using a debit card to pay. Relying on advice from internet forums, she took what was recommended as a first dose. I was sweating profusely, hallucinating.
I had palpitations. And I was OK with that. She was hospitalised shortly after the DNP episode. Her recovery was long, and there were further periods in hospital, but she had reached a turning point. While she was in hospital, her mother had been put in touch with the eating disorder organisation Beat.
When Abigail came out of hospital, she went to Beat as well, and now — between work as a sports reporter — volunteers for them as an ambassador, an eloquent guide to a lethal zone where the vulnerable meet the ruthless. I thought, if it is that severe, it must be good. If it made me feel horrific, I felt I must be on track to lose more weight. One time there was a family photo being taken and he only wanted his children in it.
We went our separate ways when Ella was As Ella got older, her mother, a chemistry teacher, sensed her growing unhappiness, though she did not understand it. She asked a lot and was very volatile.
When she was 17, Ella told social services that her mother was emotionally abusive. They gave her a room in a house with other young people, some of them homeless, some leaving state care. Six months later, Ella was given a one-bedroom flat in a pleasant part of Shrewsbury.
Her mother said she tried hard to keep her close. I helped her to get her car. I sorted out her garden. But she got very much worse in terms of emotional instability. She took a lot of meds. At one point she was sectioned. Her social media accounts were full of references to services for young people, including advice on how to talk to your teenage child about their feelings. She had not cut off contact with her mother. While she was studying, Ella would ask Fiona to proofread her assignments and help her with bibliographies.
In , she had a year to go before graduation. Karen Higgins has no doubt that she would. She saw in Ella someone who was probably on her way to getting a first-class degree, and who could have become an educational psychologist, a teacher or a youth worker. She understood the young people — she got them. She was helping them to transition, to grow and bloom. They respected and looked up to her. I knew she suffered from anxiety and mental pain, and that she had an eating disorder — she was very open about it.
Ella made good friends on the health champions project, though Higgins said it was clear her closest friend was her sister, Becky. Leanne Hampton was 15 and a full-time carer for her grandmother when she met Ella, who was a few years older than her. She was amazing, just a beacon of hope to so many people. Soon after, she began to complain of aches and pains. She took a lot of painkillers. One day at college, she collapsed and was taken to hospital with a fever, shortness of breath and heart palpitations.
Ella told her doctor she was taking DNP. During a long discussion Ella had admitted to her GP that she had been upping her intake. The doctor warned her that it was very dangerous. The counsellor Ella was seeing at this time noted that she looked fragile, and seemed defeated, and that she was still determined to lose more weight.
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There is also evidence from animal studies that DNP is carcinogenic cancer causing and increases the risk of birth defects. It is illegal to sell DNP as a weight loss drug and doing so could place you at risk of criminal sanctions.
The Food Standards Agency FSA is actively working with the police and local authorities to stamp out the illegal sale of DNP to consumers, focusing on stopping internet sales. The FSA is supporting local authorities to help with this work. However, many websites that offer DNP for sale are based in foreign countries meaning that cutting supply of the drug is difficult. Because it is so easy to access supplies, there is only so much the authorities can do to protect you.
It takes only a few seconds to find sites selling DNP on the internet. Some of these sites offer such illegal products alongside perfectly legitimate weight loss drugs, which adds to the potential for confusion. We have been working hard to raise awareness of the dangers of DNP and to encourage people to let us know if they are sold products containing this chemical. Anyone with information about the illegal sale of DNP should report this by email to FoodIncidents foodstandards.
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