Shaun Thaxter
Management
Good morning and good afternoon, everyone. And thank you for joining us today and your interest in Indivior. I’m Shaun Thaxter, CEO. And I’m also joined by Mark Crossley, CFO; as well as by our Chief Scientific Officer, Christian Heidbreder; and our Chief Legal Officer, Javier Rodriguez. We will have about 15 minutes of commentary. I will make some opening comments, and Mark Crossley will follow with a rundown of the key financials. And then we will, of course, turn to your questions. The big picture is that our daily medication businesses around the world are under pressure from well documented and anticipated market challenges, resulting in the current downward net revenue trend. Our big opportunity and immediate priority is to drive new net revenue growth from our recently approved injectable products, SUBLOCADE and PERSERIS, to mitigate these downward pressures and to create new, sustainable, long-term top and bottom line growth for Indivior. In the third quarter, we faced a combination of downward forces on our base business. First of all, we faced increased generic competition, most notably the at-risk launch by Dr. Reddy’s of a generic version of SUBOXONE Film in the U.S. Secondly, the concentration of U.S. market growth focused in the less-profitable government channels. And there was further erosion in generic tablet pricing in the U.S. and continued government-mandated price cuts in the Rest of World segment. Looking forward, the revenue pressures we face in our U.S. Film-based business are likely to continue. The momentum on volume expansion and growth will continue in government channels, and this will be fueled by increased state-level funding to address the opioid crisis. Furthermore, generic buprenorphine and naloxone tablet pricing is now at commodity floor price levels of around 80% below list price. This level of pricing has the greatest impact…