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- From: aankrom@nyx.cs.du.edu (Anthony Ankrom)
- Subject: Re: Pemoline, any generics or options?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan3.023535.10852@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
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- Date: Sun, 3 Jan 93 02:35:35 GMT
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- In article <8911@lee.SEAS.UCLA.EDU> afj@anes.ucla.edu writes:
- >I recently got an inquiry from a sufferer of mild narcolepsy about
- >the drug Pemoline. It seems the stuff is mighty expensive, coming to abo
- t
- >$100 or so a month. She was wondering if there were any generics, or sim
- lar
- >acting agents (amphetamine like without amphetamine structure) available
- >for narcolepsy. I haven't been able to find anything really for narcolep
- y
- >except maybe mazindol, and fencamfamin (which is not available in the US
- .
- >Any ideas about prescription drugs in the US or Mexico?
- >Thanks,
- >A.J.
- >
- >--
- >
- >
- >-Andy Jacobson <andyj@phoebe.loni.ucla.edu>
-
-
- I can't figure out wht pemoline should be so expensive. It's synthesis is
- rather simple: refluxing guanidine and ethylmandelate in anhydrous ethanol.
- Of course I suppose the pharmaceutical industries pricing methods is
- anything but straightforward...
-
- St. Anthony
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