Dronabinol

Name: Dronabinol Drug Interactions
Creator: Dr. Brian Staiger, PharmD, BCPS

23 interactions 92 cited references

Also sold as: Marinol Marinol® Syndros Syndros®

About Dronabinol

Dronabinol is used to treat nausea and vomiting caused by chemotherapy in people who have already taken other medications to treat this type of nausea and vomiting without good results. Dronabinol is also used to treat loss of appetite and weight loss in people who have acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS). Dronab… Read the full Dronabinol drug information page →

Medically reviewed by Dr. Brian Staiger, PharmD, BCPS · Updated Aug 9, 2026 · Editorial policy · Data sources

Sources: FDA prescribing information (Structured Product Labeling), the published literature cited in each entry, DDInter 2.0 (a major open-access drug-interaction database), and legacy DrugBank interaction data distributed by the NIH's RxNav service (decommissioned in 2024) — analyzed and reviewed by our pharmacist team. How we build this library →

Most serious with: Disulfiram Metronidazole Topical Metronidazole Injection Metronidazole Vaginal Metronidazole Capecitabine

5 Contraindicated 16 Major 2 Moderate

All (23) Contraindicated (5) Major (16) Moderate (2)

Contraindicated

Dronabinol Disulfiram Antabuse Disulfiram-like reaction Details Dronabinol Metronidazole Flagyl Disulfiram-like reaction Details Dronabinol Metronidazole Injection Flagyl Disulfiram-like reaction Details Dronabinol Metronidazole Topical MetroCream® Disulfiram-like reaction Details Dronabinol Metronidazole Vaginal MetroGel® Vaginal Disulfiram-like reaction Details

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