Tetrabenazine

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

58 interactions 4 explained in plain English

Also sold as: Xenazine Xenazine®

About Tetrabenazine

Tetrabenazine is used to treat chorea (sudden movements that you cannot control) caused by Huntington's disease (an inherited disease that causes the progressive breakdown of nerve cells in the brain). Tetrabenazine is in a class of medications called vesicular monoamine transporter 2 (VMAT2) inhibitors. It works by ch… Read the full Tetrabenazine drug information page →

Medically reviewed by Dr. Brian Staiger, PharmD, BCPS · Updated Jun 30, 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 →

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2 Contraindicated 56 Major

All (58) Contraindicated (2) Major (56)

Contraindicated

Tetrabenazine Deutetrabenazine Austedo Depletion of monoamines in the central nervous system Details Tetrabenazine Linezolid Injection Zyvox Elevated catecholamine levels Details

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