Eli5 where Prescription Names come from.

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Serious question. They all have very outrageous, strange names and I’m positive they mean something, but where do those names come from?? Someone has to know!

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Like the drug names themselves like Skyrizi or Zoloft? They’re dreamt up by whole marketing teams at the drug companies. They work to find a catchy, unique name that sometimes relates to the actual drug compound name (like acetaminophen or sertraline) or sometimes the just sound good.

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