I was minutes from death after taking 'Barbie drug' everyone needs to be warned Tanning, fake tan and Melanotan Cancer Research UK What is Melanotan II, the drug that consumers are urged to avoid? What is Melanotan II the drug that the TGA urges consumers to avoid? Frontiers The melanocortin receptors as targets for general obesity: contextualizing clinical failures and analyzing future perspectives Hannah Tittensor and her boyfriend Ben Dunlop have been injecting themselves with an illegal tanning drug called Melanotan for three years. On top of that, they use sunbeds regularly and slather themselves