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Brand-name prescription medicine

Xyrem

Generic name: Sodium oxybate

FDA application holder: Jazz Pharms

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Quick answers

What is Xyrem?
Xyrem is a brand name of Sodium oxybate, a prescription medicine. The FDA NDC Directory lists 1 Xyrem product in 1 strength and form.
Who makes Xyrem?
Jazz Pharms holds the FDA application for Xyrem (NDA021196, approved July 17, 2002).
Is there a generic or store brand of Xyrem?
Yes. The FDA NDC Directory lists 3 other products with the same active ingredients, strength and form as a Xyrem product, 3 of them generic. Ask your pharmacist whether one is right for you.
Has Xyrem been recalled?
No recall linked to Xyrem products (by their NDC code or label) appears in the FDA enforcement reports we use.

What Xyrem is

Each Xyrem 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.

Sodium oxybate · prescription medicine

Strength and formProduct namesSame medicine, other namesLabel
sodium oxybate 0.5 g/mL
solution (oral)
Xyrem 3 products, 3 companies DailyMed

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

FDA approval

  • NDA: New Drug Application: how a new (usually brand-name) medicine is approved.
FDA applications of Xyrem products (Drugs@FDA)
ApplicationHolderFirst approvedProducts
NDA021196Jazz PharmsJuly 17, 20021

Companies that list Xyrem

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

Recalls

No recall linked to Xyrem 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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