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The drug of the day today is phentermine. Brand name of this medication is

Atepex, also called FASTin at times as well. So this drug is classified as a central nervous

system or CNS stimulant.

The use of this medication in clinical practice,

I only see it used from one thing and one thing alone,

and that's weight loss or weight management.

Okay, so being a CNS stimulant,

you could understand that it can reduce appetite.

And it primarily does this by increasing release of norapinephrine and possibly dopamine as well.

So its pharmacology really kind of follows along the lines of amphetamine and amphetamine derivatives.

So knowing that, you can recognize some of the adverse effects that you might encounter there as well.

So a couple things about weight loss or weight management that I wanted to mention.

In practice, I'm generally seeing less of this medication

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