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Brand-name prescription medicine

Silenor

Generic name: Doxepin hydrochloride

FDA application holder: Currax

Official data, not advice

Everything here comes from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA): the NDC Directory, Drugs@FDA, the official labels and recall reports; pharmacy costs come from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). Each fact shows its source and date.

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Quick answers

What is Silenor?
Silenor is a brand name of Doxepin hydrochloride, a prescription medicine. The FDA NDC Directory lists 2 Silenor products in 2 strengths and forms.
Who makes Silenor?
Currax holds the FDA application for Silenor (NDA022036, approved March 17, 2010).
Is there a generic or store brand of Silenor?
Yes. The FDA NDC Directory lists 27 other products with the same active ingredients, strength and form as a Silenor product, 27 of them generic. Ask your pharmacist whether one is right for you.
Has Silenor been recalled?
No recall linked to Silenor products (by their NDC code or label) appears in the FDA enforcement reports we use.

What Silenor is

Each Silenor product as listed in the FDA NDC Directory, by active ingredient, strength and form, with its official label. “Same medicine, other names” counts the other products with exactly the same active ingredients, strength and form (generic versions, store brands and other brands); inactive ingredients can differ.

Doxepin hydrochloride · prescription medicine

Strength and formProduct namesSame medicine, other namesLabel
doxepin hydrochloride 3 mg
tablet (oral)
Silenor 12 products, 11 companies DailyMed
doxepin hydrochloride 6 mg
tablet (oral)
Silenor 15 products, 12 companies DailyMed

Its page lists every product and company, the FDA label’s uses and boxed warning, approvals, shortages and recalls: Doxepin hydrochloride →

FDA approval

  • NDA: New Drug Application: how a new (usually brand-name) medicine is approved.
FDA applications of Silenor products (Drugs@FDA)
ApplicationHolderFirst approvedProducts
NDA022036CurraxMarch 17, 20102

Companies that list Silenor

The company named on the package (holder, repackager or distributor), as listed in the FDA NDC Directory, with its number of Silenor products.

Recalls

No recall linked to Silenor products (by their NDC code or label) appears in the FDA enforcement reports.

Sources

  1. NDC Directory (openFDA) — U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), FDA data exported October 30, 2026, retrieved October 31, 2026
  2. Drugs@FDA (openFDA) — U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), FDA data exported October 30, 2026, retrieved October 31, 2026
  3. Drug labeling (SPL, openFDA) — U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), FDA data exported October 30, 2026, retrieved October 31, 2026
  4. Drug recall enforcement reports (openFDA) — U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), FDA data exported October 27, 2026, retrieved October 31, 2026
  5. NADAC (National Average Drug Acquisition Cost) 2026 — Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), data.medicaid.gov, list of November 4, 2026, retrieved November 7, 2026

Which names get a brand page: a name the NDC Directory lists for a medicine, held by one company (the FDA application holder, or the company named on most of its products), that is not just a description, and that is not the only product of its medicine.

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