(Press-News.org) South San Francisco, CA – October 12, 2010 – Titan Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (TTNP.OB) today announced that data from its previously completed and announced Phase 3 randomized, placebo-controlled clinical trial of Probuphine were published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA). The article highlights data from the 163-patient trial, which showed that patients receiving Titan's Probuphine implant had significantly less illicit opioid use, experienced fewer symptoms of withdrawal and craving, stayed in treatment longer and had greater overall improvement when compared to placebo patients over the course of the 24-week study.
Probuphine is an innovative, subcutaneous implant formulation designed using Titan's proprietary ProNeura™ technology to deliver a steady, round-the-clock low dose of the marketed drug buprenorphine over six months following a single treatment.
"The introduction of buprenorphine into clinical practice is arguably the most significant improvement in the treatment of opioid addiction in the last decade; however, physicians excited with the clinical success of buprenorphine are also rightfully concerned about medication adherence and diversion - and potential for abuse - of the sublingual formulations of buprenorphine," said Walter Ling, M.D., Professor of Psychiatry and Director, Integrated Substance Abuse Programs at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA and the paper's lead author. "Probuphine does away with these concerns by eliminating the need for take home doses. Additionally, by providing a sustained blood level of active medication, Probuphine helps diminish the daily fluctuation of the medication effects—and potentially side effects-- and reduces the total exposure of buprenorphine over time."
The publication, "Buprenorphine Implants for Opioid Dependence: A Randomized Controlled Trial" will appear in the October 13, 2010 issue of JAMA and details key trial results:
Patients receiving Probuphine had a mean percentage of urine samples that tested negative for illicit opioids across the full 24 weeks of 36.6 percent; those in the placebo group had a mean of 22.4 percent (p=0.01)
Nearly 66 percent of patients receiving Probuphine completed the study vs. the 31 percent who received placebo implants (p END
Titan Pharma announces JAMA publication highlighting phase 3 opioid dependence data
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