New Weight Loss Pill to Fight Diet Cravings

There is talk of a new diet drug called Contrave that has been designed to attack food addictions and cravings. Obviously, this new diet pill would be a great help to people who lose weight and then gain it back. It’s a combination of two drugs, an anti-depressant and an anti-addiction drug. Both are already on the market. According to evidence from testing, the one-two punch in the Contrave pill has helped people who took it to lose 5 to 10 percent of their body weight. Really obese patients lost even more.

Its results have made parallel comparisons with weight lost from gastric bypass surgery.

We will wait while the drug gets approved and see what it can do.

[Via BostonChannel.com]

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Contrave it is producing some good results in the testing. But what I think is perhaps a negative for Orexigen is that so they mixed to existing medications together and put a trademark to it. If Contrave is passed by the FDA (no guarantees but it looks like they will submit it to the FDA for approval sometime early this year 2010) What would prevent a doctor from just prescribing the generic Naltrexone and Bupropion to be taken together to have the same effect yet probably cheaper… Perhaps a good move for obese patients, but perhaps not so good for Orexigen? I think medications like Tesofensine or Lorcaserin have more potential for their makers because they are not simply combining existing drugs.