DOSING REGIMEN ASSOCIATED WITH LONG-ACTING INJECTABLE PALIPERIDONE ESTERS

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method for treating a patient in need of psychiatric treatment.SOLUTION: The invention provides a dosing regimen for administering an injectable paliperidone palmitate depot to a patient in need of psychiatric treatment that has been treated with a monthly injectable paliperidone palmitate depot, wherein the patient misses the next scheduled maintenance dose of the monthly injectable paliperidone palmitate depot, comprising: (1) administering intramuscularly in the deltoid muscle of the patient a first reinitiation loading dose of the monthly injectable paliperidone palmitate depot; and (2) administering intramuscularly in the deltoid or gluteal muscle of the patient a reinitiation maintenance dose of the monthly injectable paliperidone palmitate depot on about the 23 rd day to about the 37th day after administering of the first reinitiation loading dose.SELECTED DRAWING: None