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Addinex Technologies, Inc., a healthcare technology company focused on the innovation of medication dispensing, has been awarded a $260K Phase I Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grant by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to improve on existing addiction medication dispensing for people with opioid use disorder (OUD).

The grant will help fund the adaptation of Addinex's award-winning patented pill dispensing system that recently completed a successful study using opioids on post-surgical cancer patients at Columbia University Medical Center. Results of that study were recently published in the peer-reviewed journal, Cancer. The adapted dispenser will work with buprenorphine, including Suboxone^®, a common form of addiction treatment medication that comes in a sublingual film, and Addinex's patient app will focus on the unique needs of people suffering from OUD. 

"9.5 million people aged 12 or older misuse opioids, representing 3.3% of that population, 2.7 million people suffer from OUD, and annual overdose deaths from opioids recently rose to over 80,000. Many patients diagnosed with OUD will be treated by a combination of buprenorphine, a schedule III narcotic, along with counseling and behavioral therapies, also known as Medication Assisted Treatment," stated Jay Schiff, Co-Founder and CEO of Addinex Technologies, Inc. "Our patented, low-cost medication dispensing system provides a cost-effective way to improve adherence and reduce diversion while educating patients about proper usage and making excess medication disposal easy. We're excited to work with a world-class team of addiction treatment providers and researchers."

"I am extremely excited about this research project and the extraordinary collaboration between the IHATI, Aware, Yale School of Medicine, and Addinex. I look forward to future research efforts," stated Jennel Fontanelle, Executive Director of the IHATI.

According to Shelley Halligan, SVP Medical Affairs, Aware Recovery Care, "This is the type of cutting-edge advancement needed in this space. Individuals with OUD recover better in the home, which allows for more autonomy and family involvement in the recovery journey. We are thrilled to partner with Addinex, Yale University, and the IHATI on this project."

About Addinex Technologies, Inc.

Addinex Technologies is a cutting-edge developer of low-cost medication dispensing systems targeting misused prescription drugs. Addinex's patented low-cost mechanical dispenser regulates usage based on each patient's unique prescription, assists doctors with prescribing based on usage data by similar patients, provides education and real-time progress feedback to patients and their doctors, and incorporates a DEA-approved mailer for easy excess pill disposal. Addinex's system was named a 2002 "World Changing Idea" by Fast Company magazine. For more information, visit Addinex at www.addinextech.com.

About Aware Recovery Care

Aware Recovery Care is a mission-driven company challenging traditional approaches to the treatment of Substance Use Disorder (SUD). A pioneer in In-Home Addiction Treatment (IHAT™), Aware delivers evidence-based, personalized service. Led by a multidisciplinary team of professionals and paraprofessionals, the unique 52-week program is designed for impact, reaching clients and their families in their own homes and communities. Aware's high-touch model improves the lives of people affected by addiction and creates irrefutable value for managed care plans and employers. Aware's outcomes clearly demonstrate that sustained recovery is achieved through deeper trust and genuine partnership. Aware operates in nine states (CT, MA, RI, NH, ME, VA, OH, IN, FL) and is poised for national expansion.

About In-Home Addiction Treatment Institute

The In-Home Addiction Treatment Institute is a registered nonprofit organization with a strong dedication to researching progressive alternatives to traditional substance abuse treatment systems. Our mission is to increase accessibility, education, and research on in-home services for substance use disorder treatment. Our goal is to provide standardized training opportunities, IHAT certifications, and innovative treatment solutions to increase the quality of services delivered in the substance use disorder population.

Contact (Addinex):
Jay Schiff, Co-Founder and CEO
Addinex Technologies, Inc.
(917) 628-8026
[email protected]

Contact (Aware/IHATI):
Peter Gold
Gold & Partners, LLC
(860) 874-7743
[email protected]

Chris Kreuter
Chris Kreuter sitting at his desk.

KMC Controls^®, an industry leader in building automation, is at once delighted and saddened to announce the retirement of Chris Kreuter, an innovator whose career spanned more than 50 years with the company. 

Chris' career started 52 years ago when his father, Ken Kreuter, founded Kreuter Manufacturing - today called KMC Controls.

In the late-1960s Ken realized an opportunity to form his own company. "My dad wanted to design a line of controls of our own," explained Chris, "and that's what we started doing. We built molds and dies to make our own parts and our own controls."

At the company's inception, Chris worked in partnership with his father, two of his brothers, and future brother-in-law. "I was making parts on a lathe and also on a punch press when I was a teenager," recalled Chris, three of whose brothers continue to work at KMC. Together, along with other family members lending a hand when and where needed, they fashioned parts and equipment to Ken's designs in a three-car garage. "We used to work 12, 14 hours a day if we had to."

In the mid-1970s, the young company relocated from Winnipeg, Canada to Thief River Falls, Minnesota. By the 1980s, manufacturing split off and moved to a site in New Paris, Indiana. By the close of the decade, the company had consolidated its engineering and manufacturing operations to its expanded facility in New Paris.

As the business grew, so did the scope of Chris's roles at the company. "I started doing some of the tool design in the '80s," he said, "and I was doing some of the product design in the '90s." 

A small sampling of HVAC hardware he helped develop include wall-mounted sensors, the proprietary line of KMDigital controllers, the Conquest series of BACnet controllers, and the Company's new Indoor Air Quality line of controllers and measuring devices, not to mention a system for coupling an actuator to a valve or damper, for which he holds a patent.

In his more than five decades in the business, Chris has witnessed firsthand sweeping changes in technology and how it is applied to facility controls. "We went from pneumatics [controls that use compressed air as the signaling medium] to computer electronics on all aspects of a building," he said. "That was the biggest change I've seen." 

In that same time span, KMC Controls has managed to grow while remaining true to its origins as a family-owned business committed to innovation and to the success of its customers.

Today, the original machine shop has given way to a state-of-the-art tool and die facility under the same roof as the engineering department and factory floor. Having all those capabilities in house remains one reason the company can take a concept from drawing to working prototype in a fraction of the time it takes other manufacturers in the controls industry.

Looking ahead, Chris said he looks forward to having more time for his hobbies. "I'll probably do a lot more hunting and fishing," he said. A pilot who has logged more than 4,000 hours in the air, he is also an avid vintage motorcycle collector.

Looking back, said Chris said he enjoys the friendships he's made at KMC. "Good folks here," he said. And he plans to check in on them at KMC from time to time. After all, it's another opportunity take one of his 1930s- and 1940s-era Harley Davidson cruisers out for a ride.

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Media Contact: Jason Mills, (574) 831-8196

Suzie's CBD at SuperZoo
Suzie's CBD Treats at SuperZoo tradeshow

Suzie's CBD treats, a holistic CBD pet product company, returned to Superzoo with a brand-new booth set up and inventive plans for their product line. 

For Suzie's fifth year exhibiting at SuperZoo, the brand moved into a 20x20 booth space and showcased a freshly wrapped delivery van. The setup also included new product displays, branded corner counters, and a patio-style meeting area. 

The Suzie's CBD Treats setup wasn't the only innovative addition brought to Superzoo 2022. The team also brought new products to showcase exclusively before they hit the shelves later this year. 

Attending SuperZoo cements a company like Suzie's CBD Treats place in the industry and allows for unique personal and professional connections with those in attendance. 

"Every year we look forward to being able to share who we are and the quality products we make," says CEO Caleb Gilmore. "We always leave SuperZoo feeling inspired and excited for what lies ahead." 

You can find Suzie's entire lineup of USDA organic, third-party lab-tested CBD products for pets in small and independent retailers across the country as well as on their website. Suziespettreats.com

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AFA and Duelbits, the online betting platform, have entered into a commercial agreement for the South American territory (except Argentina), through which the company becomes a Regional Sponsor of the National Teams.

This agreement reinforces the sponsorship platform for national teams, adding a new category and territory to expand the reach of the AFA brand in different South American countries.

Claudio Tapia, President of AFA, highlighted, "In all these years of management, we have developed a strong expansion of the AFA brand, obtaining a global reach. Thanks to this work, we can build agreements with important brands that today find in AFA a strategic partner for their marketing plans, not only in Argentina but in the rest of the continent and the world. We welcome Duelbits to our National Team sponsorship program and wish them every success."

Ross Haffie, Duelbits SportsBook Head, said: "Duelbits is delighted to be an online regional betting sponsor of the Argentine Football Association. This is a landmark deal for us, and we are very excited to work closely with the team over the next 12 months. Also, this is a great year for Argentina, and we want to wish them the best of luck in Qatar."

Leandro Petersen, Commercial Marketing Director of AFA, added: "Today we are pleased to announce this commercial agreement with Duelbits, becoming the first national team to work alongside them. The process of global expansion that we started four years ago grows day by day, increasing the volume of income of our Association and expanding our horizons and our commercial frontiers."

ABOUT DUELBITS

Duelbits.com is a crypto casino and sportsbook aiming to bring users the most rewarding gambling experience. Founded in 2020 and despite the COVID19 crisis, Duelbits has grown into a well-known casino brand, particularly within the crypto niche. Duelbits' ambition is to become a niche global brand, offering users better rewards and an easy-to-use product, all accompanied by the crypto element, allowing users fast and secure payments. They have recently become the "Official European Betting Partner" of Premier League Club Aston Villa and the Official Betting Partner of the biggest South American Esports organisation "Pain Gaming".

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Earlens, a privately held medical technology company transforming the way people hear with a new class of non-surgical hearing technology, supports the FDA's ruling to create a new category of Over the Counter (OTC) hearing aids. Hearing loss, a medical epidemic associated with dementia, depression and social isolation, affects an estimated 30 million people in the United States. Despite the high prevalence and public health impact of hearing loss, only about one-fifth of people who could benefit from a hearing aid seek intervention.

While this new ruling may address a few of the barriers that impede the adoption of hearing aids, such as perceived hearing benefit relative to price and access, it will not address the top two complaints of hearing aid users: understanding speech in background noise and sound quality. The new over-the-counter hearing aids work in the same way as the traditional hearing aids widely available by prescription today. They amplify sound through a tiny speaker in a limited bandwidth. Unlike traditional hearing aids, Earlens works with the natural hearing system by gently vibrating the eardrum via a tiny, custom-built lens, which delivers 2.5X the audible bandwidth of traditional hearing aids, resulting in significantly better speech understanding in noise and improved clarity. 

"With the changing landscape in the hearing space, Earlens is well positioned to assist the many people that are dissatisfied with traditional air-conduction hearing aids, whether they are purchased in a store, through a dispenser, or over the counter. Earlens' differentiated technology and unique care model places highly trained hearing healthcare professionals at the forefront of hearing loss treatment. Earlens is committed to transforming the hearing experience for millions of people who suffer from hearing loss", said Bill Facteau, Earlens President & Chief Executive Officer.

About Earlens

Earlens is a privately held medical technology company that has developed the Earlens® hearing solution. With more than 185 US and international patents, Earlens was named to Time Magazine's list of the top 100 inventions of 2020. Earlens is exclusively available from a growing network of highly trained Ear, Nose & Throat physicians and audiologists who are supported by a dedicated concierge team. For more information, please visit www.earlens.com.

Contact

Connon Samuel

Chief Operating Officer

1-844-234-LENS (5367)

Heather Shelton Savvy Cleaner Mom Retuning to Workplace
Heather Shelton Savvy Cleaner Mom Retuning to Workplace

Savvy Cleaner is encouraging the corporate world to embrace moms returning to work after raising families. "Companies tend to overlook women that have resume gaps. There seems to be a stigma that returning moms are less valuable, or their knowledge and talents are not valid," says Savvy Cleaner's CEO, Angela Brown. "We believe that life experience brings problem-solving solutions to the workplace. Heather Shelton was a natural fit for our Publicist position," adds Brown.

According to the National Women's Law Center, "women who were mothers were recommended for significantly lower starting salaries, perceived as less competent, and less likely to be recommended for hire than non-mothers." 

Mothers Have Transferable Skills to the Workplace

"We recognize and honor that mothers have been running a family, balancing finances, juggling schedules, and navigating a range of mood swings and growing pains that come from raising children. All of these skills," says Angela Brown, "are needed when dealing with fast-paced deadlines and difficult customers. Women lead families by inspiring, encouraging, and resolving conflicts. All of those skills are interchangeable and easily transferable from home to work."

Having built Savvy Cleaner from the ground up, Angela Brown believes dismissing women in the workplace isn't just wrong, it's bad business. According to Peterson Institute for International Economics, "Women leaders could improve company performance in multiple ways. Greater skills diversity amongst the company leadership may improve management performance."

"Savvy Cleaner, like other companies its size, has growth challenges that need a leader who can stay level-headed in the daily chaos of small business. Heather Shelton is that person," adds Angela Brown. "Jumping into her role of managing brand deals, press and media interviews, guest appearances, and social media you would think she is a magician - not just a mother of three and a doting grandma."

About Heather Shelton

Since moving to Charlotte, North Carolina in 2012, Heather Shelton has shared her love for writing by teaching classes to the local homeschool community and reading to the elderly in assisted living centers. When asked about her new employment, Shelton beamed, "The entire Savvy Cleaner team makes me feel welcome. This company is changing the cleaning world, and I am honored to be along for the ride."

About Savvy Cleaner

Savvy Cleaner (https://savvycleaner.com) is a training and certification program for house cleaners and maids. They started the Ask a House Cleaner show on YouTube in 2017 to raise the standards of house cleaning through proper training, tools, and techniques. 

Contact:
Sally Naidu
Director of Media & PR
Savvy Cleaner
980-254-0900
[email protected]
https://savvycleaner.com