Forest Laboratories

Forest Laboratories is a pharmaceutical company based in New York, New York, USA. It is Chaired by Howard Solomon, father of Novelist Andrew Solomon. Forest Laboratories is known for licensing European pharmaceuticals for sale in the United States. One of its best sellers is the antidepressant Lexapro a replacement for Celexa.

Forest also has a drug for the treatment of Alzheimer's disease called Namenda. Namenda has been licensed in Europe for the last 30 years approx. but has only been licensed in the USA in the last two.

Both Lexapro and Namenda are produced in bulk at the Forest plant in Dublin, Ireland, with secondary processing such as bottling and blistering being carried out in the USA at plants in New York and St. Louis.

Other products include Benicar and Campral. Benicar is used in the treatment of hypertension. Campral is for the maintenance of abstinence from alcohol in patients with alcohol dependence. Other products include Tiazac, Armour Thyroid, Levothroid, Thyrolar, Cervidil, Infasurf, Combunox, and Aerobid.

Forest Laboratories is listed on the S+P 500 exchange under FRX.

It should not be confused with the Forest Products Laboratory.