LDN (Low Dose Naltrexone)
Naltrexone prescribed at strengths well below the commercial 50 mg tablet, almost always compounded by a pharmacy to a prescriber's specification.
Low dose naltrexone (LDN) is naltrexone prescribed at strengths well below the commercial 50 mg tablet, typically as a per-prescription compounded preparation. LDN is prescribed off-label and is almost always compounded because the strengths are not commercially manufactured.
LDN is typically dispensed as a custom-strength capsule, sometimes as a liquid. The compounding pharmacy prepares the strength and form on the prescription on a per-patient basis.
The decision to prescribe LDN is clinical and is made by the prescriber. The compounding pharmacy does not make a treatment decision; it prepares the prescription as written.
Patients seeking LDN typically work with their prescriber and a compounding pharmacy that regularly prepares LDN at the strengths the prescriber will write.