has stelazine been discontinued?

[milkman]

I was doing research on an old school antipsychotic called stelazine. anyway i live in australia and i looked up it on the online drug database called MIMS. it isn't listed there!! does this mean its been discontinued in australia?? does anyone know??

[tryp]

Did you try the generic name, "trifluoperazine"?

It may be sold in Australia under a name other than "stelazine" - brand names are pretty variable across countries, and the drug is so old that it might be sold as generic.

[Velvet Elvis]

Your best bet would be to call some pharmacists in your area. With some drugs like that even if they are technically still on the market demand for them is so rare they are almost impossible to get because nobody carries them. Use the generic name, not the trade name.

[milkman]

http://mydr.com.au/search/cmi?q=&Condition=schizophrenia heres the website where i looked up on it from. its not listed!!! must of been disconinued. can u still get it in America??

[Guest Vapourware]

For Australia, I prefer using the PBS website: http://www.pbs.gov.au/html/consumer/home

That's probably a better indication of what medication is available in Australia, because it lists all the medication that's available under PBS.

Anyways, I did a quick search under its generic name and yes, it's still available in Australia. Looks fairly cheap too. Why are you thinking of going on it?

[Velvet Elvis]

call you nearest pharmacist. That's what my pdoc does in the middle of session when we're talking about weird meds that may or may not still be around. With me there in the room he calls up the pharmacist around the corner and asks.

It doesn't matter if it's still available in some part of the world where you aren't. Find out if you can get it where you are. The way to do that is to call a pharmacist. Get the hell off the web and get on the phone. Call a pharmacist or a chemist or whatever they call them there.