Hey all, welcome back to the real-life pharmacology podcast. I'm your host pharmacist Eric Christensen.

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go do that at real-life pharmacology.com, and I'll email you a free PDF as well on the top 200 drugs.

With that said, on the top 200 drugs, kind of unveiling a new podcast kind of platform or episode

here and really wanted to cover the top 200 drugs.

And my game plan here is to really focus on those things that frequently show up on board

exams.

And so that's what I'm going to do today and going forward as well, probably over the next

year or two here with the top 200 drugs.

My target is to cover five drugs per day or per episode, excuse me,

and when those are released, and then that's going to probably take me about 40 weeks,

40 episodes to get those out to you.

And again, really focused on things that I've seen shown up in pharmacology exams throughout

my career.

A little bit of focus on clinical practice as well, some, you know, maybe cases and examples

that I've seen, but really trying to get you prepared and ready for your board exams

and pharmacology classes throughout school.

So without further ado, let's get into the five drugs of the top 200 that I'm going to

cover today.

First one is eschatalopram. Brand name of this medication is Lexapro. This is classified

as an antidepressant. And, you know, an easier way to kind of remember this one is the ending.

You know, eschatalopram and satelopram, you can kind of memorize two drugs there,

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