Nutriband CEO Gareth Sheridan Featured in New Nick Shirley Documentary Confronting America's Opioid Crisis

ORLANDO, Fla., Sept. 29, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Nutriband Inc. (NASDAQ:NTRB)(NASDAQ:NTRBW) today announced that its CEO, Gareth Sheridan, has been featured in a new documentary by independent journalist and filmmaker Nick Shirley examining the ongoing opioid crisis in the United States. Shirley, turns his lens in this latest piece to the devastating impact of illegal opioid abuse on individuals and communities across the country — and the complex challenges surrounding some of the nation's most commonly abused prescription medications.

Sheridan participated in the documentary to bring a pharmaceutical innovation perspective to the conversation, discussing how technologies such as Nutriband's AVERSA™ abuse-deterrent platform are designed to help reduce the risk of abuse, misuse, diversion, and accidental exposure associated with high-risk medications — while working to preserve access for the patients who depend on them for legitimate medical need.

“The opioid crisis isn't an abstraction — it's a daily reality for families across this country, on both sides of addiction and genuine pain, and it demands real solutions,” said Gareth Sheridan, CEO of Nutriband. “I was glad to work with Nick and speak plainly about where pharmaceutical innovation fits into that fight. AVERSA™ was built specifically to address this problem: giving patients who need these medications access to them, while making them fundamentally harder to abuse, misuse, or divert for people suffering from addiction or from accidental exposure.”

The full documentary is available to view here: https://youtu.be/zyDQOBp4nn4

About AVERSA™ Abuse-Deterrent Transdermal Technology

Nutriband's AVERSA™ abuse-deterrent transdermal technology incorporates aversive agents into transdermal patches to prevent the abuse, diversion, misuse, and accidental exposure of drugs with abuse potential. The AVERSA™ abuse-deterrent technology has the potential to improve the safety profile of transdermal drugs susceptible to abuse, such as fentanyl, while making sure that these drugs remain accessible to those patients who really need them. The technology is covered by a broad intellectual property portfolio with patents granted in the United States, Europe, Japan, Korea, Russia, China, Canada, Mexico, and Australia.

About Nutriband Inc.

We are primarily engaged in the development of a portfolio of transdermal pharmaceutical products. Our lead product under development is an abuse-deterrent fentanyl patch incorporating our AVERSA™ abuse-deterrent technology. AVERSA™ technology can be incorporated into any transdermal patch to prevent the abuse, misuse, diversion, and accidental exposure of drugs with abuse potential.

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