A small French distributor developed etifoxine for anxiety in France under the tradename Stresam and subsequently distributed the product throughout Eastern Europe, South America, South Africa and other small regions.
Etifoxine was developed by Hoechst of Germany in the 1960s. It was originally believed to be a mild benzodiazepine, because it didn’t sedate and scientists at the time did not have the technology to measure its true efficacy or determine its actual mechanism of action. Accordingly, it was deemed non-competitive with [...]
