{"id":4532,"date":"2025-08-17T08:58:23","date_gmt":"2025-08-17T08:58:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/4532\/"},"modified":"2025-08-17T08:58:23","modified_gmt":"2025-08-17T08:58:23","slug":"buying-weight-loss-drugs-and-other-medicines-online-a-disaster-waiting-to-happen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/4532\/","title":{"rendered":"Buying weight-loss drugs and other medicines online \u2018a disaster waiting to happen\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Seizures of fake weight-loss drugs rose from 568 units in 2023 to 1,582 last year\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"There has been a 14pc increase in the seizure of illegal medicines in a year. Stock photo\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/9f162fca-07f0-4ebc-b1d1-bb4fa8fdc61d.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">There has been a 14pc increase in the seizure of illegal medicines in a year. Stock photo<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Pharmacists across Ireland are warning people over the increase of counterfeit medicines being sold online, saying it is a \u201cpotential disaster waiting to happen\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">The Irish Pharmacy Union (IPU) is issuing an urgent warning to the public to think twice before purchasing medicines from unverified websites, as doing so could pose serious risks to an individual\u2019s health.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Seizures of fake weight-loss drugs rose from 568 units in 2023 to 1,582 last year There has been&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4533,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[275],"tags":[18,135,475,474,19,17,2188,1181],"class_list":{"0":"post-4532","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-healthcare","8":"tag-eire","9":"tag-health","10":"tag-health-care","11":"tag-healthcare","12":"tag-ie","13":"tag-ireland","14":"tag-laura-lynott","15":"tag-rte"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4532","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4532"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4532\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}