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🗓️ 18 August 2024
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0:11.0 | C. UK. This year, Kate Nibbs noticed a new kind of advertisement popping up online. |
0:25.0 | I'd already been getting inundated with tons and tons of advertisements on my Instagram and Facebook and Tik-Toc feeds. |
0:35.0 | Everywhere she looked there were ads for weight loss drugs, |
0:37.6 | not the ones you've heard of like Ozempik or Wagovey, |
0:40.5 | but drugs that were supposedly just like them advertised as GLP1s or |
0:45.0 | compounded semi-glutide. |
0:49.0 | And if I'm being honest, I also was sort of tempted to buy them for myself because I'm vain and it was |
0:56.0 | spring and I wanted to look my best and I was curious if I would be able to get |
1:00.9 | these medications even though I suspected that I didn't meet the |
1:05.5 | medical criterion that are generally needed to get prescribed them by doctors in different |
1:10.4 | settings. Kate is a senior writer for Wired so her curiosity |
1:14.9 | turned into a work project. She tried out these sites wondering how easy would it be |
1:20.3 | to get these popular medications? What happened? Did you get your drugs? |
1:26.0 | Yes, it was actually incredibly easy to get a compounded version of these drugs, |
1:32.0 | which means they're not name brand, but they're identical |
1:35.8 | copies that are being sold because there's a drug shortage. |
1:40.9 | And I found that if you want to get these drugs and you meet the requirements, it's super easy. |
1:47.8 | If you want to get these drugs and you're willing to exaggerate certain things on the very quick health questionnaires that the |
1:54.4 | telehealth companies will have you fill out. You can also get these drugs. |
1:57.9 | It's very easy to get these drugs online. |
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