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Bridge Therapeutics Inc. today announced that it has received feedback from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) from a Pre-Investigational New Drug (PIND) meeting for the development of BT-219, a therapy to treat Opioid Dependence.  BT-219, or Bunalz™, is an investigational new drug applying Catalent’s Zydis® ODT (orally disintegrating tablet) delivery technology to buprenorphine and naloxone,…

Dr. Michael Kittay is a Harvard-trained psychiatrist certified by the American Board of Addiction Medicine. In this article Dr. Kittay discusses how buprenorphine can greatly reduce deaths from opioid addiction.  September 6, 2019  Dr. Kittay writes “In March 2019, a report to Florida’s attorney general recognized MAT [Medically Assisted Therapy] as a key component of…

The case for buprenorphine in the treatment of opioid addiction is overwhelming, yet stigmas and biases still remain leading to inadequate treatment of those battling addiction. “Basing medical decisions on beliefs about medications does nothing to help the growing pool of those with [opioid use disorder], who if untreated are likely to fall victim to…

As their newest member, Dr. Bob Rappaport brings decades of drug approval experience to Bridge Therapeutics’ Scientific Advisory Board. Dr. Rappaport spent 20 years at the Food and Drug Administration, with the last 12 years as Director of the Anesthesia, Analgesia, and Addiction Products Division at the Center for Drug Evaluation and Research. There he…

Bridge Therapeutics will present a poster presentation at the RESI Conference November 4, 2018, in New York. Bridge Therapeutics has been selected by Life Science Nation’s internal scientific review board to be part of the Innovation Challenge presenting its technology in an exhibition-style format throughout the full-day RESI Conference on November 4, 2018, in New York….

Ruth Potee, M.D., of Greenfield, Mass., said that when buprenorphine first became available in 2002, there was an expectation that it would be widely used in primary care because addiction is a chronic condition. “By 2010, only 2 percent of primary care physicians were prescribing it,” she said. “That was a massive failure.” Dr. David…

Pharmaceutical startup Bridge Therapeutics announces the addition of Dr. Bob Raffa as its newest Scientific Advisory Board member. Dr. Raffa is a global leader in pharmacology, with over 40 years of preclinical research on drug abuse and analgesic drug discovery. He has held many prestigious leadership roles, including Co-Leader for analgesic drug discovery at Johnson…

Dr. Greg Sullivan, Chief Scientific Officer, Dr. Dave Bergstrom. Chief Operations Officer, and Tim Peara of will be speaking about how Bridge Therapeutics’ lead investigational drug could be a key part of ending the opioid crisis. Each year 70 million Americans will take an opioid for pain. Of these, 17 million take a strong opioid…

“A great part of the tragedy of this opioid crisis is that, unlike in previous such crises America has seen, we now possess effective treatment strategies that could address it and save lives,” Nora Volkow, MD, the director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse, wrote in an editorial accompanying the study (Ann Intern Med 2018…

In this article the Washington Examiner discusses how buprenorphine/naloxone combination should be readily available and could act as a key defense against the on going opioid problem in the U.S. Key to understanding how buprenorphine helps is an understanding of the difference between physical dependence and addiction. This can be a confusing distinction, as the…