Copaxone is the brand name for a drug called glatiramer acetate. Copaxone is a once daily injection medication used to treat relapsing and remitting forms of multiple sclerosis (MS). MS is a disease of the central nervous system (brain and spinal cord) that can lead to several disabling neurological problems. Copaxone is a well tolerated drug that reduces the frequency of relapses of neurological symptoms in these patients.

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