Asenapine Maleate and Sulfazine

• Generic Name: asenapine
• Dosage Forms: n.a.
• Other Brand Names: Saphris, Saphris Black Cherry

Acute and maintenance treatment of schizophrenia in adults.

American Psychiatric Association (APA) considers most atypical antipsychotic agents first-line drugs for management of the acute phase of schizophrenia (including first psychotic episodes).

Patients who do not respond to or tolerate one drug may be successfully treated with an agent from a different class or with a different adverse effect profile.

Acute treatment as monotherapy or adjunctive therapy with lithium or valproate of manic or mixed episodes associated with bipolar I disorder (with or without psychotic features).

Maintenance treatment as monotherapy of bipolar I disorder.

• Generic Name: sulfasalazine
• Dosage Forms: n.a.
• Other Brand Names: Azulfidine, Azulfidine EN-tabs, Sulfazine

Sulfazine is used to treat ulcerative colitis (UC), and to decrease the frequency of UC attacks. This medicine will not cure ulcerative colitis, but it can reduce the number of attacks you have.

Sulfazine is also used to treat rheumatoid arthritis in children and adults who have used other arthritis medicines that did not work or have stopped working.

Sulfazine may also be used for purposes not listed in this medication guide.