MagickalKat777 said:
Brian Oblivion said:
AMT is a strange bird. There are some proven safety factors as it has been used as an antidepressant in Russia since the mid-1960s (and is currently still prescribed).
Do you have proof of this?
If its still approved as an antidepressant in Russia, there may be legal grounds for importing for your own personal use, which is something that I would be EXTREMELY happy about!
You should have asked this question before "Brian Oblivion" got ticked at someone at BL and quit.
Anyway, the only references that I now have (had) are from a Ukrainian web site located at the University of Kiev. And it is (or was) in Russian. It's commercial name is "Indopan." Here is a good place to start what amounts to the equivalent of an archaeological dig:
http://groups.google.com/[email protected]#link5
And here is a reference to the post with the web site link (and partial translation):
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=...023d.0209182222.74e2c4b3%40posting.google.com
At one time, I had a few contacts at Moscow Medical Academy (MMA) at Moscow University, who could have helped track this down. But, that was quite some time ago, and I wouldn't know where to start to find them now.
Anyway, I'm afraid that trying to get anything useful today will require both a working knowledge of Russian, and a knack for searching through publications within the Russian medical community. To complicate matters, there is an Indian pharmaceutical company (Panacea Biotec, Ltd.) who produces an analgesic called Indomethacin (and goes by the nickname of "Indopan") which is being sold to the pharmaceutics industry in the former Soviet Union. So if you go searching, be careful that you don't get the two confused. (see:
http://www.psychiatry.ru/library/preparations/show_preparation.php4?textsearch=&id=83)
In terms of importing Indopan for use as an antidepressant, there are no provisions in US law which allows for Schedule I drugs to be used within the US without a DEA license (even if there is a proven medical use for the drug elsewhere).
Sorry that I don't have any good reference material for you. There is virtually nothing available in the American litature on this, and finding anything in the Russian archives is difficult because Indopan (AMT) has been surplanted by more contemporary treatments such as SSRIs.