new antidepressant called Pristiq (desvenlafaxine)
April 2009
You'll see a new antidepressant called Pristiq (desvenlafaxine).
It's an active metabolite of venlafaxine (Effexor XR, etc).
It was hoped that this metabolite would be as effective and better tolerated...but this hasn't panned out.
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