Cybin Selects Alcohol Use Disorder Indication for Psychedelic Molecule CYB003

Cybin Inc.(OTCMKTS:CLXPF), a biotechnology company focused on progressing psychedelic therapeutics, today announced that it has selected Alcohol Use Disorder (“AUD”) as the initial target indication for its proprietary deuterated psychedelic tryptamine, CYB003.

AUD is a chronic relapsing brain disorder characterized by an impaired ability to stop or control alcohol use despite adverse social, occupational, or health consequences.¹

Approximately 5.8 percent or 14.4 million adults in the United States ages 18 and older had AUD in 2018. This includes 9.2 million men and 5.3 million women.¹ To be diagnosed with AUD, individuals must meet certain criteria outlined in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (“DSM”). Under DSM–5, the current version of the DSM, anyone meeting any two of the 11 criteria during the same 12-month period receives a diagnosis of AUD. The severity of AUD—mild, moderate, or severe—is based on the number of criteria met.¹

The evidence of increased alcohol use during this ongoing pandemic is startling. For so many individuals and families, Alcohol Use Disorder can be disruptive, even devastating. We are optimistic that CYB003 could have the potential to improve the lives of AUD sufferers and their loved ones by providing a durable respite from alcohol dependence and the potential to overcome this often-crippling disease.

Doug Drysdale, Chief Executive Officer

Cybin is confident that its proprietary deuterated CYB003 New Chemical Entity (“NCE”) could be an ideal investigational new drug (“IND”) candidate for a future AUD clinical trial once further pre-clinical data has been collected. Cybin is targeting an IND filing for CYB003 by the end of calendar 2021.

Cybin’s intellectual property-driven strategy focuses on the discovery of NCEs derived from parent molecules with the potential to be faster acting and more commercially viable with an optimized duration of action, utilizing proprietary deuteration processes. As the psychedelic industry continues to evolve with positive studies, Cybin believes that these molecules may have the potential to fill current unmet treatment needs for various psychiatric and neurological conditions.

Alcohol-Related Emergencies and Deaths in the United States²

• The rate of all alcohol-related ED visits increased 47 percent between 2006 and 2014.
• Alcohol contributes to about 18.5 percent of ED visits and 22.1 percent of overdose deaths.
• An estimated 95,000 people in the U.S. (approximately 68,000 men and 27,000 women) die from alcohol-related causes annually, making alcohol the third-leading preventable cause of death in the United States.
• Between 2011 and 2015, the leading causes of alcohol-attributable deaths due to chronic conditions in the United States included alcohol-associated liver disease, heart disease and stroke, liver cirrhosis, digestive tract cancers, liver cancer, breast cancer, and hypertension.
• In 2015, alcohol-impaired driving fatalities accounted for 29.0 percent of all driving fatalities.
• In 2010, alcohol misuse cost the United States $249 billion. Three-quarters of the total cost of alcohol misuse is related to binge drinking.

Global Burden²

• In 2016, 3 million deaths, or 5.3 percent of all global deaths were attributable to alcohol consumption.
• Globally, alcohol misuse was the seventh-leading risk factor for premature death and disability in 2016.
• According to a 2014 World Health Organization (“WHO”) report, alcohol misuse was the first-leading risk factor for premature death and disability, among people ages 15 to 49.
• In 2016, 5.3 percent of the burden of disease and injury worldwide (134 million disability-adjusted life-years [“DALYs”]) was attributable to alcohol consumption.
• In 2018, WHO reported that alcohol contributed to more than 200 diseases and injury-related health conditions, ranging from liver diseases, road injuries, and violence, to cancers, cardiovascular diseases, suicides, tuberculosis, and HIV/AIDS.

¹ https://www.niaaa.nih.gov/alcohols-effects-health/alcohol-use-disorder

² https://www.niaaa.nih.gov/publications/brochures-and-fact-sheets/alcohol-facts-and-statistics

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