| ↑ The side effects of appetite suppressants confessed by actor Yang Ki-won. Photo|SBS ‘I want to know’ |
On April 12, 2019, a man was arrested by the police for acting strangely on a road near Hakdong Station in Seoul. The man punched the air, lying on the road, jumping, and jumping into the road and crashing into a vehicle. Police booked the man on charges of violating the Narcotics Control Act, but was released after a series of tests conducted at the National Forensic Service tested negative. It became a hot topic when it became known that the man who acted abnormally was actor Yang Ki-won, who appeared in the movie ‘Wind’.
What the hell happened to Ki-Won Yang two years ago? SBS ‘I want to know’ explored that curiosity in the episode of ‘Butterfly Medicine and the Bone Mala Tribe’, which aired on the 23rd. They tracked the side effects and misuse of appetite suppressants called ‘butterfly pills’ due to their butterfly-like shape, and accused the illegal distribution of drugs in the blind spot of drug management.
In an interview with ‘I want to know’, Yang Ki-won said that after taking the appetite suppressant ‘Butterfly Medicine’, he suffered side effects such as hallucinations and hallucinations.
Yang Ki-won said, “At that time, I went to a meeting for a certain drama. It was strange from the time of the meeting. My voice was also split.” “(After) hundreds of pea pellets seemed to explode from the body. The body moved and jumped at will.” explained.
Yang Ki-won said, “I was confident in losing weight and gaining weight, but at some point I did not lose weight.” “My sister told me. Women eat a lot. I didn’t think of it as a drug. I thought it was a common diet supplement.” said it was
Yang Ki-won said that he heard hallucinations when he stopped taking the drug. Yang Ki-won said, “It was the second day after I stopped taking the drug and started taking it again. I took 8 tablets in the morning and 2 in the evening,” he said. He added, “(I told the police that I ate 8 pills at a time) so I thought I would be able to convince them of my actions.”
Yang Ki-won said that he had hallucinations before being arrested by the police, and said, “(It has been a month since I stopped taking the drug) I was sitting in the bathroom, and the ring pattern on the door suddenly changed and people were evacuating. more,” he explained.
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| ↑ ‘I want to know that’ denounced the side effects of an appetite suppressant called butterfly medicine and the illegal distribution. photo|SBS |
It’s not just Yang Ki-won. Kim Eun-ja (pseudonym), who saw Yang Ki-won’s CCTV video on the news, said that Yang’s behavior, which would have been bizarre to others, was a familiar sight. This is because her daughter Park Hye-soo (pseudonym) has also acted similarly. The bright and healthy daughter began to change when she said that she had received a revelation from heaven. In addition, the daughter, who was increasingly violent, had an argument with her mother Kim one day and threatened to kill her by setting her on fire with a lighter.
Around the same time, in Uijeongbu, a fire broke out on the ninth floor of an apartment building, and residents were evacuated. The arsonist was his daughter Chun (pseudonym), who lived in the house on fire. While arguing with his family, he actually took out a lighter and lit it. The parents agreed that she was also an ordinary daughter without any problems while raising her. Actor Yang Ki-won, who showed abnormal behavior on the street, Park, who received a revelation from heaven, and Cheon, who set the fire. The three seemingly unrelated people had one thing in common: the pill they were all taking to control their weight, the ‘butterfly pill’.
The pills the three of them took were an appetite suppressant that was reputed to be effective in dieting. It is called ‘butterfly medicine’ after the shape of the pill.
In order to confirm the relationship between the ‘butterfly drug’ and abnormal behavior, the production team interviewed users who actually took this drug to control their weight. Many of them said that they had experienced side effects such as depression, hallucinations, and hallucinations.
Side effects of appetite suppressants are also a problem, but the fact that this drug, which can only be obtained with a prescription from a hospital, is being distributed illegally is a bigger problem. Nevertheless, there were a lot of teenagers who tried to get this drug somehow to lose weight.
Teenagers also used proxy purchases to get butterfly pills that are not prescribed for under 16 years old, and some of the teenagers the production team met had already had health problems.
The drug that Kiwon Yang took was phendimethrazine, which is similar to pentamine. An expert explained, “Pentamine is an amphetamine analogue as a psychotropic drug.” “Methamphetamine, methamphetamine, is methamphetamine, methamphetamine, by attaching a methyl group to amphetamine, the mother of pentamine.
Pentamine and phendimethrazine are short-term appetite suppressants used as adjunctive therapies for weight loss in obese patients. It has been designated as a psychotropic drug because it can reduce hunger or increase the action of neurotransmitters that increase satiety in the brain, thereby suppressing appetite or causing dependence and tolerance. Side effects include palpitations, tachycardia, anxiety, dizziness, insomnia, and headache. It is known that prolonged use can cause extreme fatigue, depression, hallucinations, panic, and schizophrenia.
Netizens who watched the broadcast reacted frighteningly, such as “Isn’t that appetite suppressant drug supposed to be recalled”, “Mr. .
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