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Re: Lofepramine: is it available where you live?

Posted by SLS on November 20, 2004, at 21:39:40

In reply to Lofepramine: is it available where you live?, posted by ed_uk on November 20, 2004, at 20:37:54

> Lofepramine is a popular antidepressant in the UK, I've taken it for quite a while with good results. In many countries it is not available, I don't know why. I do know it's not on the market in the US.
>
> Is lofepramine currently available where you live? Was it ever available? Was it withdrawn from the market?
>
> Ed


Hi Ed.

I might be wrong about this, but I think lofepramine is acting as a prodrug for desipramine. It is therapeutically inert, with desipramine being the active metabolite.


- Scott

 

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