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Bozza...it wasn’t a dig at you mate. What you describe (I’ve read your posts) isn’t alcohol dependency but, you acknowledge , that periodically you drink too much so you cut down, stop, or find alternatives. That’s what I’d call “being a British male over 35” what I’m talking about is THE...

Incidentally. All of you on here with alcohol dependency. You know who you are. Then take some advice from someone who was enslaved by addiction to Alcohol and then opiates and then both...you won’t stop because someone else, your wife, girlfriend, parents, kids...you’ll promise them all you...

Having sat in numerous AA meetings and detox...there is an issue with alcohol free beers in the same way as there would be with “nicotine free” cigarettes. People with crashing addiction don’t “casually pass over the Sauvignon Blanc” they are usually to be found hovering around the Aldi Vodka...

I think my dads passing probably did the collective livers of west Worthing, including yours, a favour mate.

Thoughts for you mate. Been there too. Don’t be so hard on yourself but, and I’m not saying this because it’s proper medical advice...or anything like it...if you want to stop straightaway and at least get a little bit of headspace then what I did will work. I guarantee it. You need to get over...

NSC prizes? Poster of the day? Tithead of the month? Off season thread of the...err..off season?

Actually there is good example of exactly this. We held a licence for generic buprenorphine, which is a heroin substitute, and wanted to make it into a “melt” formulation as this prevents addicts from hiding solid tablets in their mouths to sell to other addicts to fund illicit street heroin...

I’m not naming it because I don’t want folk buying it online without clinical supervision.

It works in a totally unexpected way. It is prescribed “off licence” by some Doctors. I don’t know how crowdfunding could achieve this. There isn’t actually anything like a full scale clinical study to prove efficacy. There are small studies, like ours that have shown consistently high success...

It’s not off the shelf. It’s a generic prescription only medicine. Charities don’t own or fund pharmaceutical licence variations. It’s down to a Pharma company to identify, develop, conduct a large scale clinical trial, submit an application to vary an existing licence, manufacture, change...

I was the marketing lead for this. We did the entire piece. Looked into alternate funding routes and discussed with a lot of NHS addiction service leads, the MHRA and NHS England. There was no getting around the fact that the generic pharma houses would have jumped on board within 5 minutes. We...

When I worked in Pharma (we had an addiction “portfolio”) we looked into a therapeutic medicine for alcohol addiction. We found one. Very high (90% efficacy) and good compliance. The problem was that the drug was a generic. No patent protection meant that our study and then a change of...