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All right, let's get into the drug of the day today, and that is Des Venlifaxine.

Brand name of this medication is Pristique, and the last part of that name may sound a little

bit familiar in that Venlofaxine I have covered previously.

So there's going to be a lot of tie-in and a lot of overlapping coverage here with this medication.

However, dosing is definitely different and there are a few quirks as far as metabolism and things too.

So I'll definitely talk about that later on in the podcast there.

So it is classified as an antidepressant and, of course, an S-NRI.

So that's a serotonin and norepinephrine re-uptake inhibitor.

So the use of this medication, where we have some evidence, certainly depression,

is why it was initially approved by the FDA, but also off-label use you may see is hot flashes,

menopausal type symptoms.

With that, I can say that I have never seen it used for hot flashes,

menopause type symptoms personally.

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