Napp Pharmaceuticals

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A 10mg MS Continus-branded extended-release morphine tablet displaying the Napp logo. This tablet was manufactured by Bard Pharmaceuticals Ltd,[1] a subsidiary of Napp pharmaceuticals,[2] and distributed by Mundipharma.
The headquarters of Napp Pharmaceuticals, located in the Cambridge Science Park.

Napp Pharmaceuticals Limited is a private pharmaceutical company in Cambridge, United Kingdom that was founded in 1923[3][4] and bought by the Sackler family in 1966.[5][6] Headquartered together with the related Napp Research Centre in the Cambridge Science Park since the 1980's,[4] it is a sister company of Purdue Pharma and Mundipharma, all of which are owned by the descendants of Mortimer and Raymond Sackler.

The company produces an array of pharmaceutical products, many for pain management, among them branded forms of oxycodone that have been identified as key drugs in the opioid epidemic.[7][8]

In the early 1970s, scientists at Napp developed a delivery system whereby a pill would slowly absorbed by the body, thereby continuously delivering a drug over a 12 hour period.[9] This Continus® delivery system was used by Purdue first to introduce MS Continus in 1987 and Oxycontin eight years later.

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  1. ^ Food and Drug Administration Philippines Human Drugs Registration Number DR-XY13020 via the FDA Verification Portal.
  2. ^ "Our structure". Napp. Retrieved 2021-06-09. Whilst our commercial focus is in the UK, we are part of the Napp Pharmaceutical Holdings Limited group of companies, which includes Bard Pharmaceuticals Limited, a Cambridge-based production and supply chain company, which manufactures and exports medicines to over 40 countries worldwide.
  3. ^ Posner, Gerald (2020-03-11). "On Terminal Pain and the Origins of the End-of-Life Movement". Literary Hub. Retrieved 2021-06-09.
  4. ^ Jump up to: a b "100 Best Companies to Work For in the UK: 12. Napp Pharmaceutical Holdings". The Sunday Times. 2008-03-09. ISSN 0140-0460. Retrieved 2021-06-09.
  5. ^ Clary, Sheela (2021-04-21). "Book Review: Patrick Radden Keefe's Empire of Pain". . Retrieved 2021-06-09.
  6. ^ "Raymond Sackler, pharmaceutical entrepreneur and philanthropist – obituary". The Telegraph. 2017-07-19. ISSN 0307-1235. Retrieved 2021-06-09.
  7. ^ Rebecca L. Haffajee, Michelle M. Mello (December 17, 2017). "Drug Companies' Liability for the Opioid Epidemic". New England Journal of Medicine. doi:10.1056/NEJMp1710756.
  8. ^ David Armstrong (February 21, 2019). "Sackler Embraced Plan to Conceal OxyContin's Strength From Doctors, Sealed Testimony Shows". ProPublica. Retrieved February 27, 2019.
  9. ^ David Crowe (September 8, 2018). "What next for the Sacklers? A pharma dynasty under siege". Financial Times. Retrieved February 24, 2019.

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