Old School diet pills:

[LeighAnne07]

Does anyone take the old school diet pills??? Like Bontrils or Didrex or Ionamin ???

[ChristySmiles]

None of those drugs are FDA approved. Ionamin was never approved in the US and the other two have been discontinued for safety reasons. I don't know what country you're from, but those aren't considered old school here in the US. They're banned prescription obesity medications.

[LeighAnne07]

None of those drugs are FDA approved. Ionamin was never approved in the US and the other two have been discontinued for safety reasons. I don't know what country you're from, but those aren't considered old school here in the US. They're banned prescription obesity medications.

You mean they all have been discontinued in every state? Like no doctor in the United States can prescribed them? What about Tenuate?

[ChristySmiles]

That's how I understand it.
Here's what the FDA site says:
Didrex is discontinued https://www.accessdata.fda.gov/scrip...&ApplNo=012427
Bontril is discontinued https://www.accessdata.fda.gov/scrip...&ApplNo=088021
Ionamin is discontinued (though I don't think it ever applied to come to the US in the first place) https://www.accessdata.fda.gov/scrip...&ApplNo=011613

Looks like the same thing for tenuate https://www.accessdata.fda.gov/scrip...&ApplNo=011722

Maybe I'm not understanding what the website is saying? I'm not a medical expert or anything. This was just the result of a fast google search.

[jenny25]

Really? Just the brand names or the actual generics too? Did the FDA really take down all those medications or just some of the companies that make them? This should be clearer and easier to learn. Is there a database somewhere to look stuff like this up?

[jan]

I think it's just those brand names. I'm pretty sure the generic form of the drugs is still around. Ionamin definitely, since thats phentermine, which is Adipex. The rest are phendimetrazine. There must be active brands for that or you can at least get the generic.

[madscientist]

I think it's just those brand names. I'm pretty sure the generic form of the drugs is still around. Ionamin definitely, since thats phentermine, which is Adipex. The rest are phendimetrazine. There must be active brands for that or you can at least get the generic.

I agree. most of those discontinuations just have to do with brand names. THey're available under other names and generics still.