Praziquantel is the ingredient your looking for. Drontal is usually the pill you'll get from the vet's office, but also pretty costly.
You can get the same product sold as a fish medication much cheaper.
http://www.amazon.com/Fish-Tapes-Forte-170mg-Cap/dp/B0013PTIOKOn a bottle of D-Worm (over the counter praziquantel usually available at the feed stores), it states each tablet = 34mg and recommends 5 tablets for a dog 60 lbs or over. 34 X 5 = 170mg...same as the fish tapes forte. Bottle of 5 = $27.99 / 5 doses = $5.60 per treatment.
I've also used Happy Jack's tapeworm expeller and it worked fine, but the pills are about as big as quarters and you have to give several depending on weight....quite a chore when I tried. There is also recomendations on the Happy Jacks to withhold food for a period before and after so crushing the pills onto food or wrapping in something isn't an option.
