For first episode patients, there are been two issues that suggest that the route of medication delivery is an important area to study. First is that almost all first-episode patients will stop their medication too soon. Second, a there now is atypical antipsychotic available in a long-acting preparation (long-acting risperidone, but this option is not often used right away after a first episode, so there is little guidance for clinicians about the effectiveness of long-acting antipsychotics used right away after a first-episode.