Controlled release medicament

Claim 1

A CONTROLLED-RELEASE SOLID, OR LIQUID ORAL, TOPICAL, SUBLINGUAL, PARENTERAL, IMPLANTABLE, RECTAL OR VAGINAL DOSAGE FORM WHICH CONSISTS, IN A HOMOGENOUS DISTRIBUTION THROUGHOUT THE DOSAGE FORM ESSTIALLY OF : (A) A THERAPEUTIC ORAL, TOPICAL, SUBLINGUAL, PARENTERAL, IMPLANTABLE DOSAGE UNIT QUANTITY OF A NON-ENZYMATIC MEDICAMENT, (B) AN ENZYME-LABILE PHARMACEUTICAL CARBOHYDRATE, LIPID OR PROTEIN VEHICULAR SUBSTRATE WHICH RETAINS THE MEDICAMENT AND PREVENTS OR RETARDS ITS RELEASE UNTIL SEPARATED FROM THE MEDICAMENT, AND (C) A PRE-SELECTED ENZYME, OR MIXTURES THEREOF, FOR DIGESTING SAID CARBOHYDRATE, LIPID, OR PROTEIN VEHICULAR SUBSTRATE, SAID ENZYME OR MIXTURE THEREOF BEING PRESENT IN A PREDERERMINED AMOUNT, SUFFICIENT TO EFFECT DIGESTION BY IN-VITRO GASTRIC AND/OR INTESTINAL FLUID, OR BY IN-VITRO SUBLINGUAL DISINTEGRATION, OR BY OTHER BODY FLUIDS OF SAID SUBSTRATE AND THEREBY TO CONTROL THE IN-VIV/ RELEASE OF SAID MEDICAMENT AT A PREDETERMINED RATE.