Instagram urged by UK health officials to clamp down on users promoting ‘dangerous’ unlicensed drug

A BBC investigation said that Apetamin was being marketed by social media influencers as a way to get an extreme hour-glass, curvy figure, but it can cause side-effects including fatigue, jaundice and liver failure

Instagram has been asked to close accounts promoting Apetamin (Instagram/PA)

Instagram has been urged by health leaders to clamp down on influencers using its platform to promote and sell a “dangerous” and unlicensed drug.

Senior health officials in England have written to the head of Instagram, Adam Mosseri, urging the company to shut down any accounts and content that promotes or attempts to sell Apetamin.