Happy Pills in America: From Miltown to Prozac

Appendix A. Medications Mentioned

205 appendix a Medications Mentioned Drug Class Era of Prominence Brand Name Generic Name Company Antianxiety agents (minor tranquilizers , anxiolytics) 1950s Miltown Equanil Atarax Vistaril meprobamate meprobamate hydroxyzine hydroxyzine pamoate Carter/Wallace Am. Home/Wyeth J. B. Roerig Pfizer 1960s/1970s Valium Librium Serax Tranxene diazepam chlordiazepoxide oxazepam clorazepate dipotassium Roche Roche Wyeth Abbott 1980s/1990 Xanax alprazolam Pfizer Antidepressants (psychic energizers) 1950s/early 1960s Deprol Niamid Marplan Nardil Tofranil Elavil meprobamate + benactyzine HCl nialamide isocarboxazid phenelzine dihydrogen imipramine HCl amitriptyline HCl Carter/Wallace Pfizer Roche Warner-Chilcott Geigy Merck Sharp & Dohme 1970s/early 1980s Aventyl Vivactil Pertofrane nortriptyline HCl protriptyline HCl desipramine HCl Lilly Merck Sharp & Dohme USV Pharm. Late 1980s/ 1990s/2000s Prozac Paxil Zoloft Celexa E√exor fluoxetine HCl paroxetine sertraline HCl citalopram venlafaxine Lilly Smith Kline & French Pfizer Forest Wyeth 206 appendix a Drug Class Era of Prominence Brand Name Generic Name Company Antianxiety/ antidepressant combos Late 1960s/1970s Triavil perphenazine + amitriptyline HCl Merck Sharp & Dohme Sinequan doxepin HCl Pfizer Etrafon perphenazine + amitriptyline Schering Antipsychotics (major tranquilizers , neuroleptics) 1950s Thorazine Serpasil Sandril chlorpromazine reserpine reserpine Smith Kline & French CIBA Lilly 1960s/1970s Sparine Trilafon Stelazine Serentil Mellaril promazine HCl perphenazine trifluperazine HCl mesoridazine thioridazine Wyeth Schering Smith Kline & French Sandoz Sandoz Sedatives/ stimulants 1950s Butisol barbital sodium (barbiturate) McNeil Ritalin methylphenidate HCl (amphetamine-like) CIBA Dexamyl dextroamphetamine + amobarbital (barbamp combo) Smith Kline & French ...