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By Jonah Spangenthal-Lee March 11, 2010

The Pi.com has the scoop on a federal raid on a Port Angeles doctor accused of selling sketchy weight-loss drugs:



According to a recently unsealed federal search warrant, investigators with the Food and Drug Administration and the state Department of Health believe the doctor, as yet uncharged, has been importing Chinese-manufactured pharmaceuticals containing a hormone known as HCG.


Referring to himself as a "Weight-Loss Doctor," the licensed naturopathic doctor is alleged to have offered to sell the drugs through a pair of Web sites, according to investigators' statements. Among other assertions, the man claimed injections of HCG -- which is neither approved for the treatment of obesity nor proven effective in the treatment of the affliction -- allowed patients to drop one pound a day.


"Your body will sculpt the fat from the hips, buttocks, thighs, nape of the neck, breast and belly, leaving the healthy fat alone and giving you the body you had as a young adult," the man claimed on his Web site, according to investigators' statements.


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