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MedTech Monday: Embeda is for chronic pain, not crushing and snorting

August 17, 2009 by MassDevice

Unless you like opioid withdrawal; the world's smallest tweezers; the blind seeing the world using their tonuges; the world's smallest laser; and hands-free laparoscopic organ retraction.

Embeda is for chronic pain, not crushing and snorting: Newly approved Embeda (morphine sulfate and naltrexone hydrochloride) Extended Release Capsules from King Pharmaceuticals Inc. ingeniously combines an opioid agonist (morphine) with an inner core of opioid antagonist (naltrexone). The naltrexone part of the capsule is sequestered, so it passes through the body with no intended clinical effect. But if any of you out there are thinking of crushing the capsule to enliven a slow night, please beware: The naltrexone will mix with morphine and give you an opioid withdrawal like you've never seen before.

Covidien has a cure for the pain, but sales and the taxman stymie Q2 growth

April 30, 2009 by MassDevice staff

Mansfield medical products giant rides generic painkiller sales to a strong second quarter, but predicts slow sales growth for the rest of the year.

It turns out that mother's little helper can give big companies a boost too. Or at least temporarily dull the pain of a deep recession.

Covidien Ltd. rode a rising tide of sales of oxycodone hydrochloride extended-release tablets — a generic Oxycontin equivalent — to a strong second quarter.

But the boost will be short-lived, thanks to a settlement the Mansfield-based medical products giant inked last year with Stamford, Conn.-based Perdue Pharma LP.

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