Competition is on the horizon for costly narcolepsy treatments
pharmaphorum
DECEMBER 14, 2022
Sodium oxybate — which in the late 1980s was marketed to bodybuilders and then became known as GHB and criminally used as a date rape drug — has been sold under the brand name Xyrem after gaining FDA approval in 2002. That’s an objectively long time to have exclusivity of a drug that was first synthesised nearly 100 years ago.
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