drug: butalbital

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• Clinical class: sedative hypnotic
• Chemical class: barbiturate
• Action: central nervous system depressant
• CSA schedule: III, IV
• DEA number: 2100
• Associated with (substance-related): disorders
• Also: tetraallobarbital, alisobumal, itobarbital, butalbarbital, allylbarbital

U.S. Preparations:

• Fiortal (Geneva Pharmaceuticals)
• Sedacap

Combination with acetaminophen

• Axocet^®  (Savage)  FDA approved indications: tension headache
• Bupap  (ECR)  FDA approved indications: tension headache
• Phrenilin^® (Carnrick)  FDA approved indications: tension headache
• Sedapap^®  (Mayrand)  FDA approved indications: tension headache
• Tencon  (International Ethical)  FDA approved indications: tension headache

Combination with acetaminophen & caffeine: MEDLINEplus^® Drug Information

• Anolor^® (Blansett) FDA approved indications: tension headache
• Butace^®
• Esgic-plus^® (Forest Laboratories) FDA approved indications: tension headache (tablets 5.23.88; capsules 3.29.96)
• Femcet^® (UCB)  FDA approved indications: tension headache
• Fioricet^® (Novartis) FDA approved indications: tension headache
• Medigesic^® (US Pharmaceutical)  FDA approved indications: tension headache
• Pacaps (Lunsco)  FDA approved indications: tension headache
• Repan (Everett)  FDA approved indications: tension headache
• Tenake (Seatrace)

Combination with aspirin & caffeine: MEDLINEplus^® Drug Information

• Fiorinal^® (Novartis) FDA approved indications: tension headache

Combination with aspirin, caffeine and codeine

• Fiorinal^® with Codeine (Novartis) FDA approved indications: tension headache

Combination with codeine

• Butalbital Compound with Codeine Capsules, USP (Endo Pharmaceuticals Inc.) FDA approved indications: tension headache U.S. Prescribing information

Preparations Outside U.S.:

• Sandoptal

*Molecule graphic courtesy of Steve Chapman

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