Of course, generic terms for everything! A regular discussion should not be a brand endorsement

Ketorolac, Ceterizine, Ibuprofen, Acetaminophen, I sometimes don't even know what the brand names actually are.

People say "Advil" and I'm like, "what's that?"

i refer to them by their purpose. antihistamine, analgesic, laxative, etc.

It’s more honest. I keep wanting to, but can’t make myself. Most of the time I’m getting generic or store brand “same active ingredient as …”, so why reward the branding efforts of a company I’m not patronizing?

Join the medical field and get the worst of both. Generic and various brand names are thrown around for every drug at random all the time. And if you don't know what someone is talking about when they ask for a specific med, someone could die! Not really but it's very annoying

I usually use the name of the drug when there are multiple brands with trade names for it, or when there are trade-name drugs that use multiple formulations with different ingredients.

For example, famotodine is the active agent in Pepcid and Zantac. Omeprazole is sold as Prilosec and Losec. Acetaminophen is in Tylenol, Tempra, and Panadol

When I want Pseudoephedrine and not phenylephrine, they're both branded under the trade name 'Sudafed' but only one of them really works for sinus pressure.

When I want Dextromethorphan or Guaifenesin (active ingredients in Robitussin) there are lots of other brands (Nyquil, dayquil, etc) that deliver them and knowing which drug is which and what part they do means I can pick which one to use if I don't want the other one's shitty side effects.

Cyanoacrylate is crazy glue

Yeah but for a reason. I just don't want to advertise for a random Pharma company. They're not paying me, so why would I? I also refrain from referring to other things that are known by brand name by said brand name, like paper tissues

The real question is why do you like helping corporations own the chemicals? Don't give them that W. It's not Benadryl on every bottle of diphenhydramine.

Acetaminophen, you see the medicine!

I only just googled the lyrics. Always thought he was just saying "youcetaminophen!"

You insist on using the technical name for a drug, yet call Tony Stark an "actor" ;)

You mean the name you can use to get it in a pharmacy, and tells WTF is on the pills?

Do you tell people to use a Dell Inspiron when they say they need to type some text in an airplane?

Yes, I've been doing it for years.

I have this problem with organic chemistry more broadly. On the one hand, I understand that rattling off the IUPAC name of a compound is much less concise and harder to get right than just saying the brand name or chemical name (which, for pharma, is often just as bullshit of a name as the brand name). On the other, you come across names like the Eschenmoser-Claisen rearrangement vs the Johnson-Claisen rearrangement, or the Suzuki vs Stille vs Negishi vs Kumada vs Hiyama/Denmark vs Sonogashira* cross couplings. Each set consists of fundamentally the same reaction with slight variations in the specific reagents. Just saying e.g. "organozinc" instead of "Negishi" would be so much more descriptive. The authors' names often aren't even that helpful in an attributive sense. For instance, some of the cross couplings were actually first reported by someone else in that list (though IIRC everyone got at least one), and most of the chemists published work on at least one of the other reactions at some point.

* Okay fine Sonogashiras are a little different what with the copper co-catalyst, but still, same mech at Pd.

HAHA yes yes I do that