Mark Crossley
Management
Good morning and good afternoon, everyone. Thanks for joining us. With me today to discuss our Half Year 2021 Results and our progress against our strategic priorities are Ryan Preblick, our Chief Financial Officer; Dr. Christian Heidbreder, our Chief Scientific Officer; and Jon Wasserman, our Interim General Counsel. Looking at the agenda, I will provide an overview of our strategic progress, after which Ryan will detail our financial performance, and Christian will then walk you through our R&D advancements, after which we will move to a question-and-answer session. Turning to our second quarter performance on Slide 5, in short, the key takeaways for the quarter are as follows: one, the team has executed well and they have made clear progress against all of our strategic priorities; two, our strategy behind expanding treatment access in organized health systems, or OHS for short, is delivering a fourth consecutive quarter of double-digit quarter-over-quarter growth. This paradigm shifting treatment continues to gain traction with physicians and patients giving us continued confidence in achieving our long-term $1 billion plus net revenue goal. Third, we are moving forward with confidence in our growth strategy and outlook for the future. We are backing this by initiating a share repurchase program of up to $100 million, which I will speak to in more detail a bit later. Now, turning to our report card on Slide 6 for a more detailed discussion of how we are progressing against our commitments to shareholders. Starting with SUBLOCADE, which delivered revenue of $61 million in the quarter, with continued solid underlying growth and a large $7 million criminal justice system order. The strong Q2 performance drove net revenue for the first half of 2021 to $104 million, a growth rate of 79% versus year ago. Our second quarter underlying net revenue, excluding…