Patent ID: 8603517

Claim:
A method of making a lozenge for buccal delivery of a drug, said method comprising: (a) mixing: (a)(i) a gum; (a)(ii) one or more non-crystallising sugars or non-crystallising sugar alcohols; and (a)(iii) water; (b) heating the mixture of step (a) to obtain a homogeneous mass; (c) adding a drug to the homogeneous mass of step (b); (d) optionally adding one or more components selected from the group consisting of flavorings, taste masking agents, colourings, buffer components, pH adjusting agents, stabilizers and sweetners to the mixtures of steps (a), (b) or (c); and (e) moulding the drug mixture of step (c) or (d) to form lozenges, whereby the lozenges have an amorphous structure and contain less than 10 wt % sucrose and wherein the gum (a)(i) is 40-90 wt % and the one or more non-crystallising sugars or non-crystallising sugar alcohols (a)(ii) is 60-10 wt % based upon the weight of gum (a)(i) and the one or more non-crystallising sugars or non-crystallising sugar alcohols (a)(ii).