object:-Write about the mostl

updated information about route of

drug administration or drug
formulation?

1• Implanted devices
The problem: Pills can be forgotten, misplaced, stolen, sold on the black market, or
gobbled up by kids.
Potential solution: A deviee implanted under the skin, tested in patients with opioid
addiction, dispenses medication for six months.
Who's working on it: Titan Pharmaceuticals, a San Francisco specialty
pharma company

2•Remote•controlled delivery
The problem: Drugs for neurologiea! disorders often have terrible side effeets.
Potential solution: A remote-controlled device, tested in mice, would be implanted in
the brain to precisely deliver drugs to specific regions of the brain that need it,
bypassing regions that don't.
Who’s working on it: Researchers at Washington University in St. Louis; University of
Colorado, Boulder, and Univeraity of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign