Switzerland· 68784011

Tapentadol Sandoz Retard 250 mg, Retardtabletten

A tapentadol product containing tapentadolum, registered in Switzerland by Sandoz Pharmaceuticals AG, on the national reimbursement list. The same ATC class is registered in 17 of our 19 countries.

Reimbursed in Switzerland (BAG SL)ATC N02AX06

Checked against Swissmedic (Switzerland) on September 12, 2026

Informational only — not a medical device.

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Where it is registered

Tapentadol is registered in 17 of 19 countries.

Countries holding a registration under ATC N02AX06 (tapentadol), each read from that country’s own register.

This record: Switzerland, from Swissmedic (Switzerland)
10 of them publish a price we can compare per daily dose

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Tapentadol · ATC N02AX06

17 / 19 countries

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Blue: a registration under this ATC code. The ringed marker is this record’s country. Markets marked price publish a price we can compare per daily dose.

Price per daily dose

What a daily dose of tapentadol costs, country by country.

Normalised to the WHO defined daily dose (0.4 g), the median price runs from $2.14 in Italy to $6.62 in Switzerland — a ×3.1 gap.

Switzerland: $6.62 per daily dose (median across products in the class)
Public list prices, converted to USD at the rate date shown

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Tapentadol · price per daily dose (0.4 g)

USD · FX 28 Sept 2026

CH Switzerland$6.62
ES Spain$3.34
IT Italy$2.14

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The record

At a glance

Swissmedic (Switzerland)

Active substance: tapentadolum
Manufacturer: Sandoz Pharmaceuticals AG
Country: Switzerland (CH)
ATC code: N02AX06
ATC class: Tapentadol
Defined daily dose: 0.4 g, O
Reimbursed: Yes
Source register: Swissmedic (Switzerland)
Last checked: September 12, 2026

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Regulatory notes

No shortage, Orange Book or US label notes for this record.

Interactions

184 interactions on record for tapentadol.

Graded by severity as the source publishes them — 30 severe. Severity grades are free for everyone; mechanism and management come with Growth.

Severity for every pair — free, no plan needed
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Mechanism and what to do for each pair — Growth plan

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Tapentadol · interactions on record

184 records

30 severe
130 moderate

Most severe, free to view

OndansetronA04AA01severe
GranisetronA04AA02severe
DolasetronA04AA04severe
PalonosetronA04AA05severe

24 more interactions with mechanism and management, from a commercially licensed source.

Interaction severity from DDInter 2.0 (Xiong G. et al., Nucleic Acids Res.), licensed CC BY-NC 4.0 — free for non-commercial use only; not covered by the Drug Database commercial licence.

Mechanism and what to do, in the interaction check

Source: DDInter 2.0 · synced 29 Sept 2026. Grades as the source publishes them.

Same medicine, other countries

Tapentadol in 15 other countries

What each register calls a product with the same active substance — salts and hydrates count as the same.

All tapentadol products

Authorised across Europe · EMA

The same active substance is authorised in 25 EEA countries. Names it is sold under:

Austria · Palexia, Palexia Retard
Belgium · Palexia, Palexia Retard
Cyprus · Dolten, Dolten Retard
Czechia · Apeneta, Dolupren
Germany · Palexia, Palexia Akutschmerz
Denmark · Palexia, Palexia Depot
Estonia · Tapemed Retard
Spain · Palexia, Palexia Retard
United Kingdom (Northern Ireland) · Ationdo, Ationdo Sr
Greece · Dolupren, Dolupren Ir
Croatia · Apeneta, Dolten
Hungary · Adoben
Ireland · Apeneta, Palexia
Iceland · Tapentadol Stada
Italy · Palexia, Taboxea
Luxembourg · Palexia, Palexia Retard
Malta · Dolten, Dolten Retard
Netherlands · Palexia, Palexia Retard
Norway · Palexia, Palexia Depot
Poland · Adoben, Binatta
Portugal · Ationdo, Palexia
Romania · Dolten
Sweden · Palexia, Palexia Depot
Slovenia · Apeneta, Palexia
Slovakia · Apeneta, Dolten

Source: European Medicines Agency, Article 57 product data.

Sourced from a public register and reproduced with attribution. Drug Database is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or a partner of Swissmedic (Switzerland). This is an informational data service and not a medical device — verify against the official source of record before any clinical decision.

For developers

The same record over the API, and the raw payload

GET /v1/drugs/e28c8a40-cdb0-42eb-ac96-9354e58207db
GET /v1/drugs/e28c8a40-cdb0-42eb-ac96-9354e58207db?format=fhir

Every response carries last_synced_at, so freshness is a field rather than a promise. Below is exactly what the ingestion wrote, before any presentation — the same JSON the API returns under payload.

{
  "unit": null,
  "strength": "tapentadolum 250 mg",
  "valid_from": "2024-07-01",
  "limitations": null,
  "galenic_form": "Ret Tabl 250 mg",
  "therapeutic_area": null,
  "sl_inclusion_date": "2024-07-01",
  "self_retention_pct": 10
}

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