FOR US HEALTHCARE PROFESSIONALS ONLY
INVEGA SUSTENNA® is the only* LAI with proven superiority vs a group of orals1,2†
INVEGA SUSTENNA® has a proven efficacy and safety profile, prescribed by mental health providers for >15 years1-5
INVEGA SUSTENNA® is widely covered‡ and may cost as low as $0 per month for government-insured patients6,7‡§||¶#**
*Only Johnson & Johnson conducted these clinical trials.
LAI=long-acting injectable.
†The oral antipsychotics accounted for 74% of oral schizophrenia treatment during the study period.8 Primary endpoint: Time to first treatment failure. The 5 most common AEs in the INVEGA SUSTENNA® group were: injection-site pain (18.6%), insomnia (16.8%), weight increase (11.9%), akathisia (11.1%) and anxiety (10.6%).2
INVEGA SUSTENNA® was evaluated in 4 short-term and 1 longer-term placebo-controlled trials1
See pivotal studiesReferences: 1. INVEGA SUSTENNA® [Prescribing Information]. Titusville, NJ: Janssen Pharmaceuticals, Inc. 2. Alphs L, Benson C, Cheshire-Kinney K, et al. Real-world outcomes of paliperidone palmitate compared to daily oral antipsychotic therapy in schizophrenia: a randomized, open-label, review board-blinded 15-month study. J Clin Psychiatry. 2015;76(5):554-561. 3. Schreiner A, Aadamsoo K, Altamura AC, et al. Paliperidone palmitate versus oral antipsychotics in recently diagnosed schizophrenia. Schizophr Res. 2015;169(1-3):393-399. 4. Hough D, Gopal S, Vijapurkar U, et al. Paliperidone palmitate maintenance treatment in delaying the time-to-relapse in patients with schizophrenia: a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled study. Schizophr Res. 2010;116(2-3):107-117. 5. Center for Drug Evaluation and Research. Approval letter. July 31, 2009. Accessed November 19, 2025. www.accessdata.fda.gov/drugsatfda_docs/nda/2009/022264s000Approv.pdf. 6. Lin D, Pilon D, Benson C, et al. PMH7: Assessment of patient out-of-pocket costs for antipsychotic treatments among Medicaid beneficiaries with schizophrenia. Poster presented at: ISPOR 2021; May 17-20, 2021; Virtual. 7. Li P, Benson C, Zhi Geng Z, et al. Out-of-pocket costs for long-acting injectable and oral antipsychotics among full Low-Income Subsidy (LIS) Medicare beneficiaries with schizophrenia. Poster presented at: Psych Congress Elevate. June 3-5, 2022. Las Vegas, NV. 8. Data on file. Janssen Pharmaceuticals, Inc. 9. Birchwood M. Early intervention and sustaining the management of vulnerability. Aust N Z J Psychiatry. 2000;34 Suppl:S181-184. 10. Tandon R, Nasrallah H, Akbarian S, et al. The schizophrenia syndrome, circa 2024: what we know and how that informs its nature. Schizophr Res. 2024;264:1-28. 11. Lieberman JA, Perkins D, Belger A, et al. The early stages of schizophrenia: speculations on pathogenesis, pathophysiology, and therapeutic approaches [published correction appears in Biol Psychiatry. 2002;51(4):346]. Biol Psychiatry. 2001;50(11):884-897. 12. Lin D, Joshi K, Keenan A, et al. Associations between relapses and psychosocial outcomes in patients with schizophrenia in real-world settings in the United States. Front Psychiatry. 2021;12:695672. 13. Data on file. Janssen Pharmaceuticals, Inc. 14. Sajatovic M, Doring M, Lopena OJ, et al. Earlier use of long-acting injectable paliperidone palmitate once-monthly versus oral antipsychotics in patients with schizophrenia: an integrated patient-level meta-analysis of the PROSIPAL and PRIDE studies. Neuropsychiatr Dis Treat. 2024;20:2227-2235. 15. Data on file. Janssen Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
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