FDA earmarks Sabril for fast-track review

4 February 2008

US biopharmaceutical firm Ovation Pharmaceuticals says that its developmental cocaine and amphetamine dependence treatment Sabril (vigabatrin) has received fast-track review designation from the Food and Drug Administration. The firm said that the agency's decision was recognition of the need for an effective treatment for such addictions.

Ovation vice president of global regulatory affairs Tim Cunniff said that the FDA's decision would "accelerate our efforts to bring to market a treatment option for the hundreds of thousands of people who sufferer from dependence on cocaine or methamphetamine."

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