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US 6,440,457 B1Granted
Method of administering antidepressant dosage form
AssigneeAlza Corporation
InventorsDavid Emil Edgren, Gurdish Kaur Bhatti, Zahedeh Hatamkhani, Patrick S. L. Wong
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Abstract
The invention pertains to a dosage form 10 and to administering an antidepressant medicament 16 for an extended period of time in a rate-known dose.
Claims1
A method for administering a drug to the gastrointestinal tract of a human, wherein the method comprises:
- (a) admitting orally into the human a dosage form comprising a drug of the formula:
- which drug possess antidepressant therapy and the dosage form comprises a member selected from the group consisting of a sustained-release dosage form and a controlled-release dosage form;
- and,
- (b) administering the drug from the dosage form over an extended period of time in a therapeutically responsive dose to produce the antidepressant therapy.
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