Drinking allowed: FDA rolls back alcohol restriction on female libido pill

By Zach Halaschak

Published April 11, 2019 11:19pm ET

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Drinking allowed: FDA rolls back alcohol restriction on female libido pill — FILE - In this Aug. 18, 2015 file photo, Sprout Pharmaceuticals CEO Cindy Whitehead holds a bottle for the female sex-drive drug Addyi at her Raleigh, N.C. Most women with low sexual desire wonât rush out to get the first prescription drug to boost female libido when it launches on Saturday, Oct. 17, 2015. But they may have more options down the road. | (AP Photo/Allen G. Breed)

Users of the first FDA-approved female libido medication can now drink alcohol while on it — just not two hours before taking the pill.

The Food and Drug Administration announced Thursday that Addyi users no longer have to avoid alcohol entirely. The change is a win for Sprout Pharmaceuticals, which has had trouble with sales of flibanserin, marketed as Addyi, because of the agency’s prior total prohibition on imbibing while using the medication.

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