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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The Placebo Affect is alive and well.

Funny how many people get hooked on Generic Vs Brand.

Even though ALZA's patent doesn't expire until 2018, due to a legal settlement, Watson Laboratories is allowed to sell an "authorized generic" version of Concerta.
 
This means that ALZA supplies Watson with brand-name Concerta tablets, which Watson packages and sells as a generic drug. Therefore, this generic version is exactly like the brand-name drug in every way, other than it being sold as a generic.

PLACEBO EFFECT.  You can spend your money as you wish.[/quote]

Follow-up (adult Concera users and, forced to use the, generic user) COMMENTS:

After using Concerta (ALZA 27) for several years - I had begun using a generic version for last several months - it looks totally and completely different than the "ALZA" capsuls.  It is more of a "vitimin" looking soild pill and is not marked ALZA (I don't have one here to look at to note what it is marked - sorry)

It did not seem to work as well or last as long.  I believe that the way it (time) releases is different and the dose is also weaker.

I just recently filled a script out of state (on vacation) and received what looks exactly like what I used to use and it is definitely better, more powerful and lasts longer.  It took almost a week to re-adjust (just like I felt when I first started using Concerta) back to the "real thing".

Anyone who thinks that this generic, at least this one that doesn't look like the ALZA capsuls, is the same has obviously not used both...[/quote]

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