The company that makes Provigil, Cephalon Inc., has decided to not market the drug for AD/HD (it was to be marketed under the name Sparlon).
Provigil is authorized by the FDA for daytime sedation related to narcolepsy and to treat sedation from changing shifts at work, and has been found useful in potentiating the effects of [...]
A young man I’ll call Alex recently graduated from Harvard.
As a history major, Alex wrote about a dozen papers a semester. He also ran a student organization, for which he often worked more than forty hours a week; when he wasn’t on the job, he had classes.
Weeknights were devoted to all the schoolwork that he [...]
Half of Provigil prescriptions may be for “off-label” uses. Did its maker cross the line?
It sounds like the ultimate pick-me-up. Provigil, the alertness drug sold by Cephalon Inc. (CEPH ) of West Chester, Pa., started out as a niche product to treat symptoms of narcolepsy.
But since its launch in 1999, the drug has soared [...]