Is Doriden legal in the US?

Answer 1

Doriden is a Schedule II drug in the US. Therefore it is legal to dispense in the United States. Unfortunately it is no longer manufactured leaving many that truly need this medication unable to obtain it. The drug is one of the most effective sleep aids ever developed. However, due to an insignificant amount of abuse the manufacturers were pressured by the DEA to cease manufacture. As the patent had long expired no manufacturer was willing to take on the fight. Doriden is the brand name for the drug glutethimide. The drug was used for refractory sleep disorders for more than thirty years beginning in the 1950s. It is one more casualty in the so-called war on drugs. The result is many individuals were left with the only choice to take much more addictive (and less effective) and much more expensive branded sleep medications. Supposedly some individuals are allowed to import it to the Unted States under the orphan drug law.