Purpose: The pharmacology, pharmaceutics, clinical efficacy, adverse effects, cost, and dosage and administration of long-acting risperidone injection are reviewed. Summary: Risperidone is the ...

For risperidone, the 1-mg dose was the least effective, while both the 4-mg and the 8-mg doses were superior to the 10-mg and the 16-mg doses, as well as to the 10-mg dose of haloperidol.