Lanreotide Acetate and Methadone Tablets

• Generic Name: lanreotide
• Dosage Forms: n.a.
• Other Brand Names: Somatuline Depot

Long-term treatment of acromegaly in patients who have had inadequate responses to or are not candidates for surgical resection and/or radiotherapy (designated an orphan drug by FDA for this use).

Goal of therapy is to normalize concentrations of growth hormone (GH) and insulin-like growth factor 1 (IGF-1).

Improves certain manifestations of acromegaly (asthenia, joint pain, swelling of extremities, excessive perspiration, headache).

• Generic Name: methadone
• Dosage Forms: n.a.
• Other Brand Names: Dolophine, Methadose, Methadose Sugar-Free, Diskets

• It is only to be used when around-the-clock (continuous) care is needed for a long time. It is also only to be used when other pain drugs do not treat your pain well enough or you cannot take them.