It is prohibited to market prescription drugs, except for certain exceptions for vaccines, so it is completely undisputed that it is illegal to market the preparations, says Claes Granmar, associate professor of European law at Stockholm University, to Ekot .
According to the Medicines Act, it is illegal for a doctor to market prescription drugs. Ekot has investigated 15 companies that offer subscriptions where doctors prescribe named weight loss drugs.
Since these subscriptions are based on these medicines, it is problematic, because as a doctor you are simply not allowed to market medicines, says Claes Granmar.
In addition to the subscription for the prescription, there is also the cost of the medicine itself, which is not stated in the description.
A doctor from one of the companies that Ekot reviewed says that it is all about "medical information", and not advertising.
