“For $50 a prescription, a freelancer overseas will call pharmacies in your area to find Adderall and weight loss drugs like Mounjaro or Wegovy,” Emanuel Maiberg writes over a 404Media. “If you’re having trouble finding a pharmacy that will refill your Adderall prescription because of ongoing shortages of the drug in the United States, you can pay a company called Insito Health $50 to outsource the frustrating, time consuming task of calling all the pharmacies in your area to a freelance worker in the Philippines or another country where labor is cheaper. Peter Daggett, Insito Health co-founder and C.E.O., and Parth Shah, co-founder and C.T.O., told me that they both have A.D.H.D. and that the idea for the company started when they were having trouble finding Adderall themselves. ‘I said to Parth, practically as a joke, that I’d probably pay somebody 100 bucks if they could find it for me,’ Daggett told me on a call. ‘Then it was like, well, maybe other people might feel the same. So we ran a little bit of a test, and it turns out there were lots of people that wanted someone else to find their medications for them.’ Insito Health’s service, Insito Medfinder, launched in January, and since then has helped ‘a few thousand people overall,’ Daggett said. Customers can pay $50 to find one medicine, $120 for three, or $180 for six. The service is not covered by insurance. Insito Medfinder initially launched by partnering with a few doctors who would offer the service to patients, but are now a direct to consumer business.” Emanuel Maiberg, “Americans are hiring people in the Philippines to help them find Adderall,” 404Media.
Related: Another company, FindNeedleADHD, does something similar. Drug shortages in the U.S. are widespread and growing; read here and here and here.
