Posted by ed_uk on June 11, 2006, at 16:52:10
In reply to Re: Klonopin Mechanisms? » ed_uk, posted by Squiggles on June 11, 2006, at 15:31:47
>It has many trade names. "Rivotril" is one of them.
Yeah, I was just saying that the brand name is Rivotril in the UK, since your earlier post implied that clonazepam wasn't available in the UK.
>So, what do they know about it in the UK that they don't in Canada and the US?
Nothing. Roche initially marketed several benzos for anxiety eg. Librium and Valium. They then introduced several benzos for sleep (eg. Mogadon) and epilepsy (eg. Rivotril). The various benzos have a lot in common. Roche decided to market numerous benzos for different uses because that way more people would end up taking benzos and they would make more profit. Rivotril is effective for both anxiety disorders and epilepsy. In the UK, it is approved only for epilepsy. If Roche had wanted, they could have got it approved for anxiety in the UK. I assume that they chose not to because they had already marketed several other anxiolytics in the UK.
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