Doxepin, Pharmacology, Internet Mental Health:"Doxepin is a psychotropic agent with antidepressant and anxiolytic properties. It also has sedative and anticholinergic effects, and, in the higher dosage range, it produces peripheral adrenergic blocking effects. Studies of electroencephalograms in humans have shown decreases in amplitude, and amplitude variability, also, the delta, theta and 24-35 CPS activities increased."
http://www.mentalhealth.com/drug/p30-s03.html

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Doxepin(Sinequan), Why is this drug prescribed, Health Square:"Sinequan is used in the treatment of depression and anxiety. It helps relieve tension, improve sleep, elevate mood, increase energy, and generally ease the feelings of fear, guilt, apprehension, and worry most people experience. It is effective in treating people whose depression and/or anxiety is psychological, associated with alcoholism, or a result of another disease (cancer, for example) or psychotic depressive disorders (severe mental illness). It is in the family of drugs called tricyclic antidepressants. "
http://www.healthsquare.com/newrx/sin1406.htm

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Doxepin, Description, Healthy Place:"Doxepin hydrochloride is one of a class of psychotherapeutic agents known as dibenzoxepin tricyclic compounds. Tricyclic antidepressants are used to relieve mental depression and depression that sometimes occurs with anxiety."
http://www.healthyplace.com/medications/adapin.htm

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Doxepin, Doxepin for Urinary Incontinence, Laurushealth.com:"This medication is usually taken as capsules.Use of doxepin for the treatment of urinary incontinence is an unlabeled use of the medication. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration-approved use of doxepin is for the treatment of depression. "
http://www.laurushealth.com/Library/HealthGuide/IllnessConditions/topic.asp?hwid=zp1752

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Doxepin, Prescribed for, Medicine Net:"Doxepin is used to elevate the mood of patients with depression. Nortriptyline is also a sedative and is useful in depressed patients with insomnia, restlessness, and nervousness. It also has been found to be helpful for treating chronic pain and the pain of neuralgia."
http://www.focusonmedications.com/script/main/Art.asp?li=MNI&ArticleKey=896

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Doxepin, Description, MEDLINEplus:"Topical doxepin (DOX-e-pin) is used to relieve itching in patients with certain types of eczema. It appears to work by preventing the effects of histamine, which is a substance produced by the body that causes itching."
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/druginfo/medmaster/a682390.html

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Doxepin(Sinequan), Why is this drug prescribed, PDR.net:"Sinequan is used in the treatment of depression and anxiety. It helps relieve tension, improve sleep, elevate mood, increase energy, and generally ease the feelings of fear, guilt, apprehension, and worry most people experience. It is effective in treating people whose depression and/or anxiety is psychological, associated with alcoholism, or a result of another disease (cancer, for example) or psychotic depressive disorders (severe mental illness). It is in the family of drugs called tricyclic antidepressants."
http://www.pdrhealth.com/drug_info/rxdrugprofiles/drugs/sin1406.shtml

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Doxepin, Medications, PSYweb.com:"Doxepin ( Adapin, Sinequan, Zonalon ) is an antidepressants <../Diction/antidepress.html>, used in the treatment of many types of depression: refractory depression, major depression, mixed depression anxiety, neurotic depression, or spontaneous endogenous depression."
http://www.psyweb.com/Drughtm/doxepi.html

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Doxepin, Indications, RXlist:"Doxepin HCl is recommended for the treatment of: 1. Psychoneurotic patients with depression and/or anxiety. 2. Depression and/or anxiety associated with alcoholism (not to be taken concomitantly with alcohol). 3. Depression and/or anxiety associated with organic disease (the possibility of drug interaction should be considered if the patient is receiving other drugs concomitantly). 4. Psychotic depressive disorders with associated anxiety including involutional depression and manic-depressive disorders."
http://www.rxlist.com/cgi/generic/doxepin_ids.htm

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Doxepin, Description, Web MD:"Doxepin is in a class of drugs called tricyclic antidepressants. Doxepin affects chemicals in your brain that may become unbalanced and cause depression."
http://content.health.msn.com/drug_article/article/4046.1222?bn=Adapin#whatis

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