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Anorectic - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Anorectics, anorexigenics or appetite suppressants are drugs that reduce the desire to eat ("anorectic", from the Greek an- = "not" and oreg- = "extend, reach"). |
 | | Indeed, amphetamine itself was sold commercially as an appetite suppressant until it was outlawed in most parts of the world in the late 1950s due to increasing exploitation of its stimulant properties ("abuse"). |
 | | Likewise, association of the related appetite suppressant phenylpropanolamine with hemorrhagic stroke led the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to request its withdrawal from the market in the United States in 2000, and similar concerns regarding ephedrine resulted in an FDA ban on its inclusion in dietary supplements, in 2004. |
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