Trintellix (Vortioxetine)
Trintellix is the antidepressant pharma reps spent a decade trying to make happen. The generic name is vortioxetine, marketed under Trintellix in the US and Brintellix everywhere else,…
Jun 9, 2025
Pristiq (Desvenlafaxine)
Pristiq is what happens when you take Effexor, skip a metabolic step, and sell it as a new drug. That’s not a dig, that’s the actual mechanism. Venlafaxine…
May 27, 2025
Melatonin
Melatonin is one of the most misunderstood things sold in a drugstore, and the misunderstanding got there with help from the supplement industry, the pediatrician’s office, and your…
Apr 26, 2025
Caplyta (Lumateperone)
Caplyta is the antipsychotic that came out in 2019 and made a bunch of psychiatrists do a double-take at the receptor pharmacology, then another double-take at the price…
Apr 23, 2025
Lurasidone (Latuda)
Lurasidone is the drug you reach for when somebody walks in with bipolar depression and a body that’s already been wrecked by Seroquel. It’s an atypical antipsychotic (the…
Apr 16, 2025
Trazodone
Trazodone is the most prescribed sleep medication in the United States that was never actually approved as a sleep medication. Built as an antidepressant in the 1960s, came…
Mar 25, 2025