Amineptine (Maneon® (Italy), Survector® (Spain, Italy, Philippines) is an atypical tricyclic antidepressant that selectively inhibits the reuptake of dopamine and to a lesser extent norepinephrine, thus exerting a powerful and fast-acting antidepressant effect.
Introduced in France in 1978 by the pharmaceutical giant Servier and marketed under the trade name Survector®, amineptine soon gained a reputation for abuse due to its short-lived, but pleasant, stimulant effect experienced by some patients. (This is to be distinguished from its antidepressant effect, which appears in approximately 7 days after commencing treatment.) This led to the Food and Drug Administration suspending the marketing authorisation for Survector® in 1999 and France withdrew it from the market, however several developing countries continued to produce it up until 2005.
Currently amineptine is off-patent and very difficult to obtain. Rare cases of hepatotoxicity, some serious, have been reported, but these were thought to be due to a genetic predisposition.
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