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Prisoners at Scotland’s only high-security psychiatric hospital at Carstairs will reportedly get weight loss injections to tackle the obesity crisis at the prison. ‌

Shocking figures published in a report earlier this year highlighted 95 per cent of patients in the maximum security state hospital were overweight. ‌

Since hitting the worst numbers ever recorded for overweight prisoners, hospital doctors are now said to have turned to weight-loss jabs to help patients tackle excess weight. ‌

The drugs – officially known as GLP-1 agonists – work by suppressing the appetite and have revolutionised the medical approach to obesity .

But strict criteria mean the NHS prescribes the drugs only to the most severely unwell people – who have a body mass index (BMI) of

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