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Tricyclic antidepressant

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Tricyclic antidepressants are a class of antidepressant drugs

first used in the 1960s.

Although they remain effective, they have been increasingly replaced by

serotonin-specific reuptake inhibitors because the difference between

a therapeutic and a toxic dose of a tricyclic antidepressant is small.