An Antipsychotic Patch

Topics: Antipsychotic | Asenapine | News of Note | Patch | Saphris | Secuado | Transdermal

Asenapine (Saphris) is now available as a transdermal patch, Secuado. The patch showed efficacy in a large 6-week, double-blind, placebo-controlled, fixed-dose study in 616 adult patients with schizophrenia. Transdermal medications are thought to reduce side effects by avoiding “first-pass” metabolism in the GI tract. This is unlikely to be an adva