Melanotan is BACK! After recent regulatory changes, compounding pharmacies are once again able to produce Melanotan peptide! If you've been missing the benefits of this popular peptide, now's your chance PDF) Increasing illegal use of Melanotan: The Barbie drug hype Background 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 Your body already makes a hormone that tells your skin to tan. Melanotan 2 is a synthetic peptide engineered to mimic that hormone but in a version that's more potent and longer lasting than Rise in use of 'dangerous' tanning injection Channel 4 News